• Combination in Messor: Ruzsky, 1903b: 315; Emery, 1908f: 456.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1908f: 456; Forel, 1910a: 9; Karavaiev, 1911a: 67; Forel, 1911f: 347; Emery, 1912f: 96; Wheeler & Mann, 1916: 170; Donisthorpe, 1918c: 166; Emery, 1921b: 212; Emery, 1921c: 73; Santschi, 1926f: 292; Menozzi, 1933b: 54; Santschi, 1934d: 275; Zimmermann, 1934: 67; Santschi, 1939c: 6.
• Junior synonym of Messor structor: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 12
• Junior synonym of Messor rufitarsis darianus: Pisarski, 1967a: 383; Pisarski, 1969b: 306
• Subspecies of Messor structor: Ruzsky, 1903b: 315; Menozzi, 1933b: 56 (in key); Zimmermann, 1935: 15; Aktaç, 1977: 120; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 134 (error).
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1961a: 61; Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 150; Collingwood, 1985: 251; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 257; Collingwood, 1993b: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 256; Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002: 7; Petrov, 2006: 92 (in key); Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 42; Legakis, 2011: 11; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 515; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 45; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 20; Nezhad et al., 2012: 70; Borowiec, 2014: 110; Lebas et al., 2016: 298; Borowiec & Salata, 2020: 11; Salata et al., 2023: 223 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Stenamma structor orientalis

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