Messor capensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Myrmicinae
Tribus: Pheidolini
Genus: Messor
Species: Messor capensis

Name

Messor capensis (Mayr, 1862: 743)

Synonyms

• Atta capensis Mayr
• Aphaenogaster pseudoaegyptiaca Emery
• Aphaenogaster pseudo-aegyptiaca Emery
• Aphaenogaster barbara pseudoaegyptiaca Emery
• Aphaenogaster barbarus capensis var. pseudo-Aegyptiacus Emery
• Aphaenogaster capensis pseudoaegyptiaca Emery
• Messor capensis schenki Wheeler
• Messor capensis schencki Wheeler
• Messor braunsi Forel
• Messor schencki Wheeler
• Messor donisthorpei Santschi

References

• Mayr, G. 1862: Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 12: 649–776.
• Arnoldi, K.V. 1977: [Survey of harvester ants of the genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the fauna of the USSR.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 56: 1637–1648.
• Agosti, D. & C.A. Collingwood. 1987: A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 60: 51–62.
• Cagniant, H. & X. Espadaler. 1998: Le genre Messor au Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.), 33: 419–434.