• Lectotype designation: Steiner et al., 2018: supplementary material, 6.
• Emery, 1921b: 211 (footnote) (q.); Karavaiev, 1927a: 286 (q.m.)
• Combination in Messor: Emery, 1908f: 454
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1923f: 320; Karavaiev, 1927a: 286; Karavaiev, 1927d: 261 (in key); Karavaiev, 1934: 108.
• Subspecies of Messor barbarus: Emery, 1908f: 454; Forel, 1910a: 24; Forel, 1911f: 347; Emery, 1912f: 96; Emery, 1915f: 1; Santschi, 1917e: 92; Emery, 1921c: 70; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 136.
• Junior synonym of Messor structor: Dlussky et al., 1990: 224; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 114; Arakelian, 1994: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139; Legakis, 2011: 11; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 20; Radchenko, 2016: 171.
• Status as species: Emery, 1921b: 210 (footnote); Schkaff, 1925b: 274; Arnol'di, 1948a: 211 (in list); Dlussky, 1962: 179; Tarbinsky, 1976: 56 (redescription); Hamann & Klemm, 1976: 671; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1644 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); He & Song, 2009: 722; Steiner et al., 2018: supplementary material, 6.

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster structor clivorum
• Messor barbarus clivorum

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