Contents Miscellaneous ants - Iran
SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Messor
Messor concolor (Emery)
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Messor concolor (Emery)

return to list {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Syria (Messor barbarus ssp semirufus var concolor, Emery, 1908e: 1448; Santschi, 1927c: 229, soldier, worker & male; raised to species Thomé, G. & Thomé, H., 1981b: 143, illustrated).

Emery's (1908e) description is at {original description}.

Egypt record - record in Wheeler & Mann (1916) from Wadi Feran, Sinai.

{Messor concolor major}Iran finding - the photomontage is of specimens collected from Miankaleh, by Omid Paknia, August 2004.

Other images can be seen in the folders at - {original description}, {original description}, and {original description}.

{Messor concolor minor}Minor specimen
©2007, 2008 - Brian Taylor CBiol FIBiol FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

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