• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921c: 72; Emery, 1922d: 97.
• Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bolton, 1995b: 254.
• Material referred to Messor bouvieri by Collingwood, 1978: 68.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Collingwood, C. A. 1978. A provisional list of Iberian Formicidae with a key to the worker caste (Hym. Aculeata). EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 52:65-95. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922d. Messor barbarus (L.). Appunti de sinonimia e di sistematica. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 54:92-99. PDF
• Stitz, H. 1917. Ameisen aus dem westlichen Mittelmeergebiet und von den Kanarischen Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8:333-353. PDF