• [First available use of Messor barbarus semirufus ebeninus Forel, 1910a; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Finzi, 1936: 160 (q.); Tohmé, 1971: 573 (m.).
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1913d: 427; Crawley, 1920a: 164; Emery, 1921c: 72; Emery, 1922d: 97.
• Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Menozzi, 1933b: 52; Finzi, 1936: 160; Santschi, 1938a: 31.
• Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974a: 227
• Status as species: Tohmé, 1971: 569 (redescription); Tohmé, 1975: 171; Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 142; Collingwood, 1985: 249; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 254; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 317; Mohamed et al., 2001: 51; Petrov, 2006: 92 (in key); Paknia et al., 2008: 155; Lush, 2009: 114; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 42; Collingwood et al., 2011: 426; Karaman, 2011b: 37; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 513; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 19; Sharaf et al., 2013: 572; Borowiec, 2014: 105; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 134; Sharaf et al., 2022: 55; Sharaf et al., 2024: 1740.

Obsolete combinations

• Messor semirufus ebeninus

Citations

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