Taxonomic history
[First available use of Messor barbarus aegyptiacus tunetinus Emery, 1922; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Finzi, 1930b PDF: 14 (q.).Subspecies of Messor aegyptiacus: Finzi, 1930b PDF: 14; Bernard, 1953a PDF: 142 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 258; Barech et al., 2020 10.35929/RSZ.0002 PDF: 15.