• [First available use of Stenamma barbarum capense decipiens Forel, 1905e; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1910e: 15; Forel, 1911g: 266; Arnold, 1920a: 410; Emery, 1921c: 70; Emery, 1922d: 99.
• Subspecies of Messor capensis: Wheeler, 1922: 805.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1982: 348 (redescription); Collingwood, 1985: 249; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 317; Borowiec, 2014: 104.
• Senior synonym of Messor arcistriatus: Bolton, 1982: 348; Bolton, 1995b: 253.
• Senior synonym of Messor capensis probus: Bolton, 1982: 348; Bolton, 1995b: 253.

Junior synonyms

• Messor arcistriatus Santschi, 1928
• Messor capensis probus Wheeler, 1922

Obsolete combinations

• Messor capensis decipiens

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmicine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 45:307-370. PDF
• 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
• Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922d. Messor barbarus (L.). Appunti de sinonimia e di sistematica. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 54:92-99. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30. PDF
• Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1917e. Races et variétés nouvelles du Messor barbarus L. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 8:89-94. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.