Messor draxil Fisher, 2025

Fisher, Brian L., 2025, Replacement names for junior homonyms in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), ZooKeys 1256, pp. 81-113 : 81-113

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1256.162607
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:022D48B6-D029-470F-907D-96134B37CE80
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17370150
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/99299ED5-CD44-5208-94E2-A5B4690D248B
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Messor draxil Fisher
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

D 10. Messor draxil Fisher nom. nov.

Note.

Replacement name for Messor sculpturatus Carpenter, 1930: 32 , junior secondary homonym of Cratomyrmex sculpturatus Stitz, 1916: 377 (current combination Messor regalis sculpturatus ) junior synonym of Messor regalis (Emery, 1892 b: 572) .

Type locality.

USA: Colorado (Florissant Fossil Beds) Eocene.

Type material.

Fossil. fossil imprints (compression fossils). Holotype ♀ No. 2920, paratypes Nos. 2921 ( MCZC), 10,032 (Peabody Museum), 7850 (Princeton University), 17,017 a (University of Colorado), 78,804 ( USNM), 11 (Carnegie Museum).

Type depository.

MCZC.

Etymology.

Arbitrary combination of letters, treated as a noun in apposition.