• [First available use of Messor barbarus structor alexandri Santschi, 1917e; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921b: 212; Emery, 1921c: 73; Santschi, 1926f: 292.
• Subspecies of Messor structor: Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 134 (error).
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1993b: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 252; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 42; Legakis, 2011: 9; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 511; Borowiec, 2014: 101; Lebas et al., 2016: 298.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2012. Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 23 (4):461-563. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1993b. A comparative study of the ant fauna of five Greek islands. Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 20:191-197. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921b. Formiche raccolte a Budrum (Anatolia) da Raffaele Varriale, Cap. medico nella R. Marina. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 49[=(3)9]:208-218. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
• Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1926f. Travaux scientifiques de l'Armée d'Orient (1916-1918). Fourmis. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 32:286-293. PDF
• Tohmé, G.; Tohmé, H. 1981. Les fourmis du genre Messor en Syrie. Position systématique. Description de quelques ailés et de formes nouvelles. Répartition géographique. Ecologia Mediterranea 7(1):139-153. PDF
• Tohmé, G.; Tohmé, H. 2014. Nouvelle liste des espèces de fourmis du Liban (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). Lebanese Science Journal 15 (1):133-141. PDF
• Vonshak, M.; Ionescu-Hirsch, A. 2010 ("2009"). A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55. PDF