Taxonomic history
Forel, 1890b PDF: lxix (q.); Karavaiev, 1926b PDF: 102 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953b PDF: 68 (l.).Combination in Aphaenogaster (Messor): Forel, 1890b PDF: lxix; Ruzsky, 1905b: 753.Combination in Stenamma (Messor): Forel, 1902a PDF: 149; Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 28.Combination in Messor: Emery, 1908f PDF: 452.Subspecies of Messor barbarus: Forel, 1890b PDF: lxix; Emery, 1891c: 10, 12; Emery, 1893m PDF: 100 (footnote); Forel, 1894d PDF: 31; Forel, 1895e PDF: 233; Forel, 1902a PDF: 149; Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 28; Ruzsky, 1905b: 753; Forel, 1908b PDF: 14; Emery, 1908f PDF: 452; Forel, 1909k PDF: 379; Santschi, 1910f PDF: 234; Karavaiev, 1911b PDF: 4; Karavaiev, 1912a PDF: 10; Stitz, 1917 PDF: 343; Emery, 1921c PDF: 72.Subspecies of Messor structor: Santschi, 1923f PDF: 318 (redescription); Karavaiev, 1926b PDF: 101; Karavaiev, 1927a PDF: 286; Karavaiev, 1927d: 261 (in key); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b PDF: 45; Karavaiev, 1929d PDF: 209; Karavaiev, 1934: 108; Karavaiev, 1935b PDF: 107; Karavaiev, 1937 PDF: 172.Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 105; Bernard, 1955a PDF: 355 (redescription); Cagniant, 1968a PDF: 142; Cagniant, 1970a PDF: 415; Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 252; Bolton, 1995b: 257; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 321; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 112.
