• Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 149 (q.m.)
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921c: 70.
• Subspecies of Messor barbarus: Emery, 1922d: 95; Santschi, 1923f: 326 (in text); Santschi, 1925g: 342 (in key); Santschi, 1927d: 246; Menozzi, 1933b: 56 (in key).
• Status as species: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 148; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 257; Collingwood, 1993b: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 257; Petrov, 2006: 93 (in key); Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 43; Legakis, 2011: 12; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 516; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 20; Borowiec, 2014: 113; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 134; Borowiec & Salata, 2020: 13.

Obsolete combinations

• Messor barbarus sultana

Citations

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