• [First available use of Messor barbarus semirufus concolor Emery, 1908f; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1915f: 1; Wheeler & Mann, 1916: 170; Emery, 1921c: 72; Santschi, 1921a: 110.
• Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Zimmermann, 1934: 67; Baroni Urbani, 1964a: 1; Hamann & Klemm, 1976: 671.
• Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974a: 227
• Junior synonym of Messor wasmanni: Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 322; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 21; Borowiec & Salata, 2013: 385 (in text).
• Status as species: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 143; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 253; Markó & Csősz, 2002: 116; Paknia et al., 2008: 154; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 42; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 15; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 513; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 134; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 46; Salata & Borowiec, 2019a: 56 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Messor semirufus concolor

Citations

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