Taxonomy of Genus Messor Forel, 1890
Class
| Insecta
Linnaeus, 1758
Insects, True insects | 4179
190570
2444470 | Families
Genera
Species |
Subclass
| Pterygota
Lang, 1888
Winged insects | 3816
189502
2439455 | Families
Genera
Species |
Infraclass
| Neoptera
van der Wulp, 1890
Modern Wing-folding insects | 3399
186457
2415487 | Families
Genera
Species |
Superorder
| Holometabola
Heider, 1889
Holometabolous Insects | 1891
142849
2048615 | Families
Genera
Species |
Order
| Hymenoptera
Linnaeus, 1758
Ants, Bees, Sawflies, Wasps | 319
21125
328720 | Families
Genera
Species |
Suborder
| Apocrita
Gerstaecker, 1867
Ants, Bees, Narrow-waisted hymenopterans, Parasitic wasps | 165
17348
314830 | Families
Genera
Species |
Infraorder
| Aculeata
Latreille, 1802
Stinging wasps | 62
6400
167168 | Families
Genera
Species |
Superfamily
| Formicoidea
Latreille, 1802
Ants | 5
1575
54996 | Families
Genera
Species | | Family | Formicidae
Latreille, 1809
Ant, Ants | 1575
54996 | Genera
Species | | Subfamily | Myrmicinae
Lepeletier, 1835
| 643
24656 | Genera
Species | | Tribe | Pheidolini
Emery, 1877
| 12
4116 | Genera
Species | | Genus | Messor
Forel, 1890
| 645 | Species |
Subnodes of Messor Forel, 1890 | Species | Messor abdelazizi Santschi, 1921
| | | | Species | Messor aciculata Smith, 1874
| | | | Species | Messor aciculatua Smith, 1874
| | | | Species | Messor aciculatum Smith, 1874
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor aciculatus Smith, 1874
Nuttall cockle | 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor aedificator Schilling, 1839
| | | | Species | Messor aegyptiaca Emery, 1878
| 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor aegyptiacus Emery, 1878
Inflated axinopsid, Savannah lilliput | 17 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor alexandri Tohme, 1981
| | | | Species | Messor amaurocyclia Foerster, 1850
| | | | Species | Messor ambiguus Linnaeus, 1767 ⇒ Messor barbarus
| | | | Species | Messor amphigea Forel, 1910 ⇒ Messor oertzeni
| | | | Species | Messor andrei Mayr, 1886 ⇒ Veromessor andrei
Aleutian cyclocardia | | | | Species | Messor angularis Santschi, 1928
| | | | Species | Messor antennatus Emery, 1908
Grooved fingernailclam | 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor aphaenogasteroides Pisarski, 1967
| | | | Species | Messor aphenogasteroides Pisarski, 1967
| | | | Species | Messor aralocaspius Ruzsky, 1902
Green jackknife | 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor arcistriatus Santschi, 1928 ⇒ Messor decipiens
| | | | Species | Messor arenarium Fabricius, 1787
| | | | Species | Messor arenarius Fabricius, 1787
Florida marshclam, Wabash riffleshell | 8 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor asmaae Sharaf, 2018
| | | | Species | Messor atanassovi Atanassov, 1982
| | | | Species | Messor atanassovii Atanassov, 1982
Mottled fingernailclam | | | | Species | Messor barabarus Linnaeus, 1767
| | | | Species | Messor barbara Linnaeus, 1767 ⇒ Messor barbarus
| 4 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor barbaraus Linnaeus, 1767
| | | | Species | Messor barbaro Linnaeus, 1767
| | | | Species | Messor barbarum Emery, 1878
| 22 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor barbarus Linnaeus, 1767
Harvester ant | 134 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor barbarus-structor Latreille, 1798
| | | | Species | Messor barbatus Latreille, 1798
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor batensis Forel, 1909
| | | | Species | Messor beduina Emery, 1922
| | | | Species | Messor beduinus Emery, 1922
Carpenter carditid | | | | Species | Messor berbericus Bernard, 1955
| | | | Species | Messor bernardi Cagniant, 1967
| | | | Species | Messor binodis Fabricius, 1775
| | | | Species | Messor bouvieri Bondroit, 1918
| | | | Species | Messor boyeri Cagniant, 2006
| | | | Species | Messor braunsi Forel, 1913 ⇒ Messor capensis
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor brevispinosus Santschi, 1923
| | | | Species | Messor bruneicornis Smith, 1874
| | | | Species | Messor brunneicorne Forel, 1901
| | | | Species | Messor brunneicornis Smith, 1874
| | | | Species | Messor brunni Forel, 1910 ⇒ Messor denticornis
| | | | Species | Messor bucephalus Salata, Demetriou, Georgiadis & Borowiec, 2023
| | | | Species | Messor buettikeri Collingwood, 1985
| | | | Species | Messor bugnioni Forel, 1904
| | | | Species | Messor caducum Victor, 1839
| | | | Species | Messor caducus T. Victor, 1839
| 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor capensis Mayr, 1862
| 6 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor capitata Forel, 1906
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor capitatus Latreille, 1798
European Seed Harvesting Ant | 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor carpathous Menozzi, 1936
| | | | Species | Messor carthaginensis Bernard, 1980
| | | | Species | Messor caucasicola Victor, 1839 ⇒ Messor caducus
| | | | Species | Messor caviceps Forel, 1902
| | | | Species | Messor celiae Reyes, 1985
| | | | Species | Messor cephalotes Emery, 1895
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor ceresis Santschi, 1934
Tellin semele | | | | Species | Messor chamberlini Wheeler, 1915
Many-line lucine | | | | Species | Messor chicoensis Smith, M.R., 1956
| | | | Species | Messor clivorum Latreille, 1798 ⇒ Messor structor
| 4 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor clypeatus Kuznetzov-Ugamskij, 1927
Flat mysella | | | | Species | Messor collingwoodi Bolton, 1982
Painted sunsetclam | | | | Species | Messor concolor Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | | | | Species | Messor crawleyi Santschi, 1928
| | | | Species | Messor creticus Salata & Borowiec, 2019
| | | | Species | Messor danaes Salata, Georgiadis & Borowiec, 2023
| | | | Species | Messor decipiens Santschi, 1917
Ringed lucine | | | | Species | Messor dentatus Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | | | | Species | Messor denticornis Forel, 1910
| 5 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor denticulatus Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | | | | Species | Messor dentiscapus Karavaiev, 1912
| | | | Species | Messor desertora He & Song, 2009
| | | | Species | Messor diabarensis Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | | | | Species | Messor donisthorpei Santschi, 1937 ⇒ Messor capensis
| | | | Species | Messor ebeninus Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | | | | Species | Messor ebininus Santschi, 0
| | | | Species | Messor eglalae Sharaf, 2007
| | | | Species | Messor erectus Espadaler, 1998
| | | | Species | Messor erwini Orou, Csősz, Arnan, Pol, Arthofer, Schlick-Steiner & Steiner, 2023
| | | | Species | Messor excursionis Ruzsky, 1905
Oval macoma | 7 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor ferreri Collingwood, 1993
Confusing transennella | | | | Species | Messor foreli Santschi, 1923
Inflated axinopsid | 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor fossulatus Santschi, 1923
| | | | Species | Messor fraternus Ruzsky, 1905
| | | | Species | Messor galbula Losana, 1834
| | | | Species | Messor galla Mayr, 1904
Japanese horseshoe crab, Tri-spine horseshoe crab | 7 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor gracilinodis Emery, 1878
| | | | Species | Messor grandinidus Emery, 1912
| | | | Species | Messor hamiliferus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929
| | | | Species | Messor hamulifera Karavaiev, 1926 ⇒ Messor incorruptus
| | | | Species | Messor hebraeus Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | | | | Species | Messor hellenicus Agosti & Collingwood, 1987
| | | | Species | Messor hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987
Banded transennella, Stimpson transennella | | | | Species | Messor hesperius Santschi, 1927
| | | | Species | Messor himalayanum Forel, 1902
| | | | Species | Messor himalayanus Forel, 1902
| | | | Species | Messor hismai Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
| | | | Species | Messor hispanica Santschi, 1919
| | | | Species | Messor hispanicus Santschi, 1919
Tennessee riffleshell | 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor hispanicuss Santschi, 1919
| | | | Species | Messor hodnii Barech, Khaldi, Espadaler & Cagniant, 2020
| | | | Species | Messor hoggarensis Santschi, 1929
| | | | Species | Messor huberiana Leach, 1825
| | | | Species | Messor iberica Santschi, 1931
| | | | Species | Messor ibericus Santschi, 1931
Grooved fingernailclam | | | | Species | Messor incisus Stitz, 1923
| | | | Species | Messor incorruptus Kuznetzov-Ugamskij, 1929
| | | | Species | Messor inermis Kuznetzov-Ugamskij, 1929
| | | | Species | Messor infumatus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929
| | | | Species | Messor instabilis Smith, 1858
Louisiana pearlshell | 10 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor intermedius Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | | | | Species | Messor isekram Bernard, 1977
| | | | Species | Messor juliana Pergande, 1894
| | | | Species | Messor julianum Pergande, 1894
| | | | Species | Messor julianus Pergande, 1894
White strigilla | 4 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor juvenilis Fabricius, 1804
| | | | Species | Messor karawajevi Tarbinsky, 1976 ⇒ Messor rufus
| | | | Species | Messor kardamenae Salata & Borowiec, 2023
| | | | Species | Messor kasakorum Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | 2 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor kazakorum Arnoldi, 1969
| | | | Species | Messor kisilkumensis Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | | | | Species | Messor labicornis Santschi, 1918
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor laboriosus Santschi, 1927
| | | | Species | Messor lamellicornis Arnoldi, 1968
| | | | Species | Messor lapidum Fabricius, 1804
| | | | Species | Messor lariversi Smith, 1951
Butter clam | | | | Species | Messor leubberti Forel, 1910
| | | | Species | Messor lobicornis Forel, 1894
Lilliput, Texas lilliput | 9 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor lobifer Smith, 1874
| | | | Species | Messor lobognathus Andrews, 1916
California butterclam | | | | Species | Messor lobulifer Smith, 1874
| | | | Species | Messor lobulifera Emery, 1901 ⇒ Messor aciculatus
| | | | Species | Messor lobuliferus Smith, 1874
| 2 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor lucidus Santschi, 1927
| | | | Species | Messor luebberti Forel, 1910
| | | | Species | Messor luridus Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | 2 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor lusitanicus Tinaut, 1985
| | | | Species | Messor macrops Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927 ⇒ Messor variabilis
| | | | Species | Messor maculifrons Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | | | | Species | Messor marikovskii Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | | | | Species | Messor marocanna Santschi, 1927
| | | | Species | Messor marocanus Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | | | | Species | Messor maroccana Santschi, 1927
| | | | Species | Messor maroccanus Santschi, 1927
| | | | Species | Messor mcarthuri
| | | | Species | Messor medioruber Santschi, 1910
Catspaw, Cuba transennella, Purple cat's paw pearly mussel | 8 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor mediorubra Santschi, 1910 ⇒ Messor medioruber
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor mediosanguineus Donisthorpe, 1946
| | | | Species | Messor megacephala Leach, 1825
| | | | Species | Messor melancholicus Arnoldi, 1977
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor meridionalis André, 1883
| 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor minor André, 1883
Cuba transennella | 27 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor muraywahus Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
| | | | Species | Messor muscatus Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
| | | | Species | Messor mutica Nylander, 1849
| | | | Species | Messor muticus Nylander, 1849
| | | | Species | Messor nahali Tohme, 1981
| | | | Species | Messor nigra Latreille, 1798
| | | | Species | Messor nigricans Santschi, 1932 ⇒ Messor semirufus
| | | | Species | Messor nigriceps Linnaeus, 1767 ⇒ Messor semirufus
| | | | Species | Messor niloticus Santschi, 1938
| | | | Species | Messor nondentatus He & Song, 2009
| | | | Species | Messor obscurior Pashaei Rad, Taylor, Torabi, Aram, Abolfathi, Afshari, Borjali, Ghatei, Hediary, Jazini, Heidary Kiah, Mahmoudi, Safariyan & Sei, 2018
| | | | Species | Messor oertzeni Forel, 1910
Elegant dwarf cockle, Salina mucket | 5 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor oerzeni Forel, 1910
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor oerzenitor Forel, 1910
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor olegianus Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | | | | Species | Messor orientalis Emery, 1898
Fat gaper | | | | Species | Messor parvidens Forel, 1910 ⇒ Messor denticornis
| | | | Species | Messor perantennatus Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | | | | Species | Messor pergandei Mayr, 1886 ⇒ Veromessor pergandei
Aleutian cyclocardia, Black harvester ant | | | | Species | Messor piceus Stitz, 1923
| | | | Species | Messor picturatus Santschi, 1927
Cuba transennella | 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor planiceps Stitz, 1917
| | | | Species | Messor platyceras Crawley, 1920
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor plinii Santschi, 1912 ⇒ Messor cephalotes
| | | | Species | Messor ponticus Steiner & al., 2018
| | | | Species | Messor postpetiolatus Santschi, 1917
Ringed lucine | | | | Species | Messor postquadratus Santschi, 1932
| | | | Species | Messor probus Santschi, 1917 ⇒ Messor decipiens
| | | | Species | Messor pseudoaegyptiaca Emery, 1884
| | | | Species | Messor punctata Smith, 1858
| | | | Species | Messor punctaticeps Barech, Khaldi, Espadaler & Cagniant, 2020
| | | | Species | Messor regalis Emery, 1892
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor reticuliventris Karavaiev, 1910
Milky venus | | | | Species | Messor rubea Emery, 1892
| | | | Species | Messor rubella Latreille, 1798 ⇒ Messor structor
| | | | Species | Messor rufitarsis Foerster, 1850 ⇒ Messor structor
| 8 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor rufo Foerster, 1850
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor rufotestaceous Foerster, 1850
| | | | Species | Messor rufotestaceus Förster, 1850
Expanded macoma | | | | Species | Messor rufus Santschi, 1923
Flat mysella, Inflated axinopsid | 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor rugesus
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor ruginodis Stitz, 1916
| | | | Species | Messor rugosus André, 1881
Atlantic surfclam, Wabash riffleshell | 3 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor sancta Bondroit, 1918
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor sanctus Emery, 1921
Elegant dwarf cockle | 4 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor sanganus Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
| | | | Species | Messor santschii Emery, 1908
| | | | Species | Messor scalpturata Nylander, 1856
| | | | Species | Messor schencki Mayr, 1862 ⇒ Messor capensis
| | | | Species | Messor sculpturatus ♰ Carpenter, 1930
Fine-line lucine | | | | Species | Messor semirufus André, 1883
Cuba transennella | 17 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor semoni Forel, 1906
| | | | Species | Messor similis Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927 ⇒ Messor rufus
| 2 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor smithi Cole, 1963
| | | | Species | Messor sordida Forel, 1892 ⇒ Messor barbarus
| | | | Species | Messor sordidus Forel, 1892 ⇒ Messor barbarus
| | | | Species | Messor spec Santschi, 1927
| | | | Species | Messor stoddardi Emery, 1895
| 2 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor striatellus Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | | | | Species | Messor striaticeps André, 1883
| | | | Species | Messor striatifrons Stitz, 1923
| | | | Species | Messor striativentris Emery, 1908
| | | | Species | Messor striatulus Emery, 1891
| | | | Species | Messor structor Latreille, 1798
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | 30 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor structur Latreille, 1798
| 1 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor subgracilinoclis Arnol´di, 1970
| | | | Species | Messor subgracilinodis Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | | | | Species | Messor subgracillinodis Arnol´di, 1970
| | | | Species | Messor sublaeviceps Santschi, 1927
| 7 | Subspecies | | Species | Messor subpolitus Latreille, 1798 ⇒ Messor structor
| | | | Species | Messor sultanus Santschi, 1917
Ringed lucine | | | | Species | Messor syriacus Tohme, 1969
Pacific eggcockle | | | | Species | Messor tadzhikorum Arnoldi, 1970
| | | | Species | Messor tataricus Ruzsky, 1905 ⇒ Messor structor
| | | | Species | Messor testaceus Donisthorpe, 1950
| | | | Species | Messor thoracica Mayr, 1862
| | | | Species | Messor timidus Espadaler, 1997
| | | | Species | Messor tropicorum Wheeler, 1922
| | | | Species | Messor turcmenochorassanicus Arnoldi, 1977
| | | | Species | Messor tyrrhena Latreille, 1798
| | | | Species | Messor valentinae Arnoldi, 1970
Colorful transennella, Conrad transennella | | | | Species | Messor variabilis Kuznetzov-Ugamskij, 1927
Flat mysella | | | | Species | Messor varrialei Emery, 1921
| | | | Species | Messor vaucheri Emery, 1908
| | | | Species | Messor veneris Salata, Georgiadis & Borowiec, 2023
| | | | Species | Messor vicinus Kuznetzov-Ugamskij, 1927
Flat mysella | | | | Species | Messor wasmanni Krauße-Heldrungen, 1910
Varnished liocyma, Wavy liocyma | | | | Species | Messor werneri Latreille, 1798
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Synonyms Native, vernacular names and spellings of Messor
Distribution of Messor Forel, 1890 Afghanistan
| Albania
| Algeria
| Andorra
| Angola
| Armenia
| Austria
| Azerbaijan
| Belgium
| Benin
| Botswana
| Brazil
1 Species | Bulgaria
| Burkina Faso
| Canada
| Central African Republic
| Chad
| China
20 Species | Croatia
| Cyprus
| Czech Republic
| Denmark
| Egypt
| Eritrea
| Ethiopia
| France
| Gabon
| Georgia
| Germany
| Ghana
| Greece
| Hungary
| India
5 Species | Indonesia
2 Species | Iran
| Iraq
| Israel
| Italy
| Ivory Coast
| Jamaica
| Japan
| Jordan
| Kazakhstan
| Kenya
| Kuwait
| Kyrgyzstan
| Lebanon
| Lesotho
| Libya
| Mali
| Malta
| Mauritania
| Mexico
3 Species | Monaco
| Mongolia
| Montenegro
| Morocco
| Namibia
| Niger
| Nigeria
| North Korea
| Norway
| Oman
| Pakistan
| Palestine
| Panama
| Poland
| Portugal
| Republic of the Congo
| Republic South Africa
| Romania
| Russia
| Saudi Arabia
| Senegal
| Slovakia
| Slovenia
| Somalia
| South Korea
| Spain
| Sudan
| Sweden
| Switzerland
| Syria
| Taiwan
| Tajikistan
| Tanzania
| Tunisia
| Turkey
| Turkmenistan
| Ukraine
| United Arab Emirates
| United Kingdom
| USA
15 Species | Uzbekistan
| Venezuela
| Yemen
| Zimbabwe
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Found in fossile formations Florissant Fossil Beds
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