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Messor barbarus causes 50–100% of the seed losses and is the most common ant in arable fields in northeastern Spain (Westerman et al. 2012). These ants in particular made news headlines all over Spain when farmers believed they were stealing their seeds and began a cull only to realise they actually play a massive part of the ecosystem and benefit the production for crop farmers completely.
Messor is a genus of myrmicine ants with more than 100 species, all of which are harvester ants; the generic name comes from the Roman god of crops and harvest, Messor. The subterranean colonies tend to be found in open fields and near roadsides, openings are directly to the surface.
Veromessor pergandei is a species of harvester ant native to the Southwestern United States, especially the deserts of southeastern California.It has also been identified in the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. [1]
Messor: Forel 1890 110 Formica barbara: Messor barbarus [253] Metapone: Forel 1911 18 Metapone greeni: Metapone emersoni [254] Microdaceton: Santschi 1913 4 Microdaceton exornatum: Microdaceton exornatum [255] †Miosolenopsis: Zhang 1989 1 †Miosolenopsis fossilis — [43] Monomorium: Mayr 1855 372 Monomorium monomorium: Monomorium pharaonis ...
Messor capitatus is an ant species part of the genus Messor. This genus includes about 40 specialized species that are found in dry areas of Mediterranean countries such as Africa, Southern Europe, and Asia. [ 1 ]
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Plectroctena sp. fighting. Ponerinae, the ponerine ants, [2] is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 47 extant genera, including Dinoponera gigantea - one of the world's largest species of ant.
Current estimates place the number of mangrove crab species at 481 in 6 different families, with new species being discovered frequently. [5] Mangrove crabs primarily live in the Indo-West Pacific region in mudflats along tropical coasts. [10]