These are images from my Messor barbarus nest.  read more »

Cagniant & Espadaler (19981) have defined a criteria for the species groups in Morocco, that we co  read more »

1. 1. Cagniant H, Espadaler X .  1998.  Le genre Messor au Maroc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.). 33 (4):419-434.

Raised to species: Cagniant, 2006:197 1

1. 1. Cagniant H .  2006.  Liste actualisee des fourmis du Maroc (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).. Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 8:193-200.

Althoguh this name appears as an "Unavailable Name" in every source I have checked (Bolton 2005, e.  read more »