Messor capitatus

Messor capitatus

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 capitatus

Name

Messor capitatus (Latreille, 1798: 46)

Synonyms

• Formica capitata Latreille
• Formica huberiana Leach
• Aphaenogaster barbara nigra André
• Myrmica galbula Losana

References

• Latreille, P.A. 1798: Essai sur l'histoire des fourmis de la France. Chez F. Bordeaux, Brive. 50 pp.
• 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.

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