Taxonomic history
[Also described as new by Krausse, 1911a: 15.].Finzi, 1929 PDF: 83 (q.); Finzi, 1933 PDF: 163 (m.).As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Krausse, 1912c PDF: 164; Emery, 1915a: 249; Emery, 1916a PDF: 142; Santschi, 1917e PDF: 90; Emery, 1921c PDF: 71; Menozzi, 1921 PDF: 26; Emery, 1922d PDF: 94.Subspecies of Messor barbarus: Emery, 1912f PDF: 97.Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Santschi, 1927d PDF: 230; Finzi, 1928c PDF: 788; Finzi, 1929 PDF: 82; Finzi, 1930d PDF: 312; Finzi, 1933 PDF: 163; Zimmermann, 1935 PDF: 17.Subspecies of Messor meridionalis: Bondroit, 1920b PDF: 305; Baroni Urbani, 1964b PDF: 30 (footnote); Baroni Urbani, 1969e PDF: 331; Baroni Urbani, 1968e PDF: 434; Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 59.Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Bernard, 1967a PDF: 147; Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 227.Junior synonym of Messor meridionalis: Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 68; Poldi et al., 1995: 3.Status as species: Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990b: 156 (in key); Collingwood, 1993b PDF: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 258; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 322; Bračko, 2006 PDF: 137; Petrov, 2006 PDF: 92 (in key); Bračko, 2007 PDF: 17; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 489; Karaman, 2011b PDF: 40; Legakis, 2011 PDF: 11; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 516; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 21; Borowiec & Salata, 2013 PDF: 385 (in text); Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 114; Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 14; Lebas et al., 2016: 300; Borowiec & Salata, 2018a 10.5281/zenodo.1481802 PDF: 6; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 46; Salata & Borowiec, 2019a 10.3906/zoo-1809-41 PDF: 66.
