• [First available use of Messor structor striaticeps melancholicus Karavaiev, 1926b; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1926f: 292.
• Status as species: Arakelian, 1994: 36; Bolton, 1995b: 255; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139; Borowiec, 2014: 109; Bračko, 2019: 172.
• Senior synonym of Messor melancholicus schelkovnikovi: Arakelian, 1994: 36; Bolton, 1995b: 255.

Junior synonyms

• Messor melancholicus schelkovnikovi Arnol'di, 1977

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
• 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
• Bračko, G. 2019. New data on the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Azerbaijan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15 (1):165-175. 10.23885/181433262019151-165175 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
• Santschi, F. 1926f. Travaux scientifiques de l'Armée d'Orient (1916-1918). Fourmis. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 32:286-293. PDF