• [First available use of Messor barbarus varrialei hellenis Santschi, 1926f; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• [Note: Santschi, 1926f: 286 (in list) spells the unavailable name as hellenius, but in the taxon caption (p. 290) it is spelled as hellenis.]
• [Misspelled as helensis by Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 66.]
• Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 208 (s.), 211 (m.)
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Finzi, 1928c: 788; Finzi, 1939c: 154; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 66.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 254; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 514; Borowiec, 2014: 106; Lebas et al., 2016: 298; Borowiec & Salata, 2018a: 6; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 46; Salata & Borowiec, 2019a: 66; Kiran & Karaman, 2020: 307; Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 207 (redescription).

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