• [First available use of Messor barbarus aegyptiacus incorruptus Ruzsky, 1905b; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1908f: 452; Emery, 1921c: 70; Emery, 1922d: 96.
• Subspecies of Messor barbarus: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 16.
• Junior synonym of Messor caducus: Kolossov, 1932: 118; Donisthorpe, 1941m: 238.
• Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1640 (in key); Arakelian, 1994: 37.
• Status as species: Bernard, 1981b: 145; Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 144; Bolton, 1995b: 254; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139; Paknia et al., 2008: 155: 139; Borowiec, 2014: 107; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 134; Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019: 172.
• Senior synonym of Messor hamulifera: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1640 (in key); Arakelian, 1994: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 254.

Junior synonyms

• Messor hamulifera Karavaiev, 1926
  Obsolete combination(s): Messor barbarus hamulifera

Obsolete combinations

• Messor barbarus incorruptus

Citations

• Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1977b. Review of the harvester ants of the genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the fauna of the USSR. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 56:1637-1648. PDF
• Bernard, F. 1981b. Revision of the genus Messor (harvesting ants) on a biometrical basis. Pp. 141-145 in: Howse, P. E.; Clement, J.-L. (eds.) 1981. Biosystematics of social insects. Systematics Association Special Volume No. 19. London: Academic Press, 346 pp.
• 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
• Donisthorpe, H. 1941m. Synonymical notes, etc., on Formicidae (Hym.). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 77:237-240. PDF
• Emery, C. 1908f. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil III. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908:437-465. 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
• Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. PDF
• Khalili-Moghadam, A.; Borowiec, L.; Nemati, A. 2019. New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province of Iran with taxonomic comments. Polish Journal of Entomology 88 (2):163-182. 10.2478/pjen-2019-0013 PDF
• Kolossov, J. 1932. Synonymische u. systematische Bemerkungen über palaearctische Insekten. Entomologisches Nachrichtenblatt. Troppau 6:115-118. PDF
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1929d. The ants of the genus Messor in the fauna of Middle Asia. [In Russian.]. Acta Universitatis Asiae Mediae. Series VIIIa Zoologia 6:1-25. PDF
• Paknia, O.; Radchenko, A.; Alipanah, H.; Pfeiffer, M. 2008. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran. Myrmecological News 11:151-159. PDF
• Ruzsky, M. 1923. Ants of Cheleken Island. [In Russian.]. Izvestiya Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta 72(2nd part):1-6.
• 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