Combination in Manica: Jurine, 1807: 279.Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).Formica capitata Latreille, 1798: 46 (w.) FRANCE. The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Worker-produced males: absent (Delage (1968) cited in Choe (1988) Frumhoff & Ward, 1992) (workers reported to lay fertile (haploid) eggs in queenless colonies but only trophic eggs in queenright colonies).See also a list of all data tables or learn how data is managed. Explore: Show all Flight Month data or Search these data.Check details at Worldwide Ant Nuptial Flights Data, AntNupTracker and AntKeeping.In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Palaearctic Region: Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Croatia, France ( type locality), Greece, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Portugal, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Spain.Ĭheck data from AntWeb Countries Occupied Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists.

Latitudinal Range: 45.516667° to 31.766667°.ĭistribution based on Regional Taxon Lists Key to Iberian Peninsula Messor speciesĭistribution Latitudinal Distribution Pattern.Identification Keys including this Species However, Borowiec (2014) notes that this species needs taxonomic study as recently collected material showed that populations from the western part of the Mediterranean differ slightly from the eastern populations, suggesting that a complex of related species may be present. Aphaenogaster barbara nigra André, 1883Ī west-European ant, reported also from NW Africa (Rigato & Toni, 2011).

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