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SUBFAMILY MYRMICINAE - Genus Messor - Messor niloticus Santschi
{Messor niloticus}

Messor niloticus Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Egypt (Santschi, 1938a: 36, illustrated, soldier & worker).

Santschi's (1938a) description is at {original description}.

Egypt record - Messor niloticus Santschi (1938a: 35, illustrated, soldier & worker). Mohamad thesis 91979) had - Mariut,10.III.1914 (Coll.Alf.)

{Messor niloticus}The photomontage is of a specimen from Egypt, taken by Mostafa Sharaf (DSCN2100).
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