• Status as species: Tarbinsky, 1976: 52 (redescription); Arnol'di, 1977b: 1645 (in key); Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 255; Schultz et al., 2006: 206; Borowiec et al., 2009: 378.

Citations

• Arnol'di, K. V. 1970a. New species and races of the ant genus Messor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 49:72-88. 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
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, M. L.; Borowiec, L.; Csősz, S.; Radchenko, A. 2009. Ants collected during 2006 Polish expedition to Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 20:367-379. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1981b. Desert ants. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 230 pp. PDF
• Schultz, R.; Radchenko, A.; Seifert, B. 2006. A critical checklist of the ants of Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:201-207. PDF
• Tarbinsky, Y. S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. [In Russian.]. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. PDF