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Messor minor

Lesser harvester ant

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Messor minor (Andre, 1883)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

Canary Islands Harvester Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Messor

Messor minor

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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species of insect

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(c) Amanhuy Duque y Andrea Castro, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Amanhuy Duque y Andrea Castro · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
(c) Bartosz Fidor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist
Occurrences (GBIF) 9 countries · 771 records GBIF · updated on 14/08/2026 Maximize Minimize
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Occurrences by year
1920: 1 1924: 1 1927: 1 1942: 2 1960: 2 1969: 2 1970: 12 1972: 2 1973: 9 1974: 2 1975: 2 1976: 2 1984: 2 1985: 13 1986: 16 1987: 1 1988: 1 1990: 4 1991: 9 1993: 1 1998: 1 2001: 2 2003: 1 2009: 7 2010: 2 2011: 5 2012: 3 2013: 3 2014: 10 2015: 13 2016: 10 2017: 8 2018: 17 2019: 15 2020: 17 2021: 33 2022: 60 2023: 83 2024: 151 2025: 107 2026: 71
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YearRecords
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19842
198513
198616
19871
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20115
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20133
201410
201513
201610
20178
201817
201915
202017
202133
202260
202383
2024151
2025107
202671
Spain · 287 Italy · 265 France · 207 Iran · 4 Morocco · 2 Tunisia · 2 Algeria · 2 Canada · 1 Turkey · 1
Italy 10/08/2026 · MarcoGZ · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 03/08/2026 · Sergio Ibarra · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 03/08/2026 · Female · pino_il_camorrista · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 26/07/2026 · alessandracecca · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
France 25/07/2026 · amaday · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 22/07/2026 · popojo · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 20/07/2026 · Andrea Montechiarini · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 09/07/2026 · lucapassalacqua · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 04/07/2026 · Eli · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode · original record
Italy 24/06/2026 · acovey · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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