• [First available use of Messor barbarus meridionalis inermis Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927a; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1927e: 247.
• Status as species: Tarbinsky, 1976: 65 (redescription); Arnol'di, 1977b: 1641 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 254; Schultz et al., 2006: 206; He & Song, 2009: 723; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 45.

Obsolete combinations

• Messor barbarus inermis

Citations

• Arnol'di, K. V. 1977b. Review of the harvester ants of the genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the fauna of the USSR. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 56:1637-1648. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
• He, D.-H.; Song, L. 2009. A taxon of the ant genus Messor Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China, with description of two new species in desert region. Highlights of Sciencepaper Online 2:720-725. PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1929d. The ants of the genus Messor in the fauna of Middle Asia. [In Russian.]. Acta Universitatis Asiae Mediae. Series VIIIa Zoologia 6:1-25. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1927e. Révision myrmécologique. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 67:240-248. PDF
• Schultz, R.; Radchenko, A.; Seifert, B. 2006. A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:201-207. PDF
• Tarbinsky, Y. S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. [In Russian.]. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. PDF