Messor barbarus

Harvester ant

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Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767)

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

Barbary Harvester Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Messor

Messor barbarus

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species of insect

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(c) Sergio Ibarra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sergio Ibarra · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Bartosz Fidor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bartosz Fidor · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Jakob Fahr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

Occurrences (GBIF) 37 countries · 7300 records

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Year	Records
1864	1
1878	8
1880	2
1882	1
1893	1
1894	1
1903	1
1904	2
1905	3
1920	4
1921	1
1922	10
1923	22
1924	2
1927	4
1929	30
1934	6
1935	7
1936	1
1948	3
1949	2
1951	2
1960	1
1969	2
1970	5
1974	5
1975	11
1976	15
1977	17
1978	10
1979	5
1980	2
1982	1
1986	2
1988	6
1992	1
1993	2
1997	1
2000	1
2001	4
2002	3
2005	6
2006	15
2007	24
2008	63
2009	52
2010	67
2011	117
2012	103
2013	71
2014	1,026
2015	106
2016	118
2017	323
2018	166
2019	195
2020	296
2021	570
2022	676
2023	553
2024	769
2025	865
2026	452

Spain · 3,781 France · 2,237 Portugal · 987 Algeria · 79 Morocco · 43 Italy · 28 Tunisia · 22 Turkey · 16 Germany · 14 Hungary · 11 India · 8 Netherlands · 8 Kenya · 8 South Africa · 7 Israel · 6 Palestinian Territories · 6 Greece · 4 Syria · 4 Croatia · 3 Switzerland · 2 Namibia · 2 Madagascar · 2 Iraq · 2 Ethiopia · 2 Eritrea · 2 Egypt · 2 Denmark · 2 Côte d’Ivoire · 2 Belgium · 2 Austria · 1 Bulgaria · 1 Cyprus · 1 Lebanon · 1 Russia · 1 Sudan · 1 Turkmenistan · 1 Ukraine · 1

France 28/06/2026 · Guillaume Martin · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Spain 27/06/2026 · Xel · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Spain 27/06/2026 · Finlay F. K. Thorpe · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

France 26/06/2026 · Walter Zoccarato · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Portugal 26/06/2026 · marta1984 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Portugal 26/06/2026 · Paulo Galvão · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Portugal 26/06/2026 · Rodolfo Ferreira · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

France 25/06/2026 · Indeterminate · henrihh83 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Portugal 25/06/2026 · Rita Azedo · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Spain 25/06/2026 · Víctor Huete Pelaez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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