• Veromessor in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Wheeler, 1922: 661; all subsequent authors.
• Veromessor as subgenus of Novomessor: Forel, 1917: 235; Emery, 1921c: 67; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 735.
• Veromessor as genus: Wheeler, 1922: 661; Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 354; Creighton, 1950a: 157; Smith, 1951c: 799; Kusnezov, 1952d: 10 (in key); Kempf, 1972b: 257; Smith, 1979: 1364.
• Veromessor as junior synonym of Messor: Bolton, 1982: 338.
• Lobognathus Enzmann, 1947b: 152 [as subgenus of Veromessor]. Erroneous entry for Veromessor lobognathus and hence Lobognathus is automatically a junior synonym of Veromessor Forel, 1917 (Brown, 1949a: 49).
• [Sphaeromessor Bernard, 1985: 48. Unavailable name. Proposed without designation of type-species and therefore unavailable. Species included by Bernard (1985) are all referable to Messor: Bolton, 1995b: 46.]
• Veromessor as genus: Ward et al., 2015: 13.

Junior synonyms

• Lobognathus Enzmann, 1947

Obsolete classifications

• Novomessor (Veromessor)

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1985. Recherches sur l'évolution des fourmis moissonneuses (Hym. Formicidae). Actes des Colloques Insectes Sociaux 2:45-55.
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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949a. Synonymic and other notes on Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Psyche (Cambridge) 56:41-49. PDF
• Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
• Johnson, R. A.; Borowiec, M. L.; Snelling, R. R.; Cole, A. C. 2022. A taxonomic revision and a review of the biology of the North American seed-harvester ant genus Veromessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 5206 (1):1-115. 10.11646/zootaxa.5206.1.1 PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
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• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
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