• [First available use of Messor barbarus structor romanus Santschi, 1917e; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 61).]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921b: 211; Emery, 1921c: 73; Santschi, 1926f: 291 (in text); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 11 (error).
• Junior synonym of Messor structor: Dlussky et al., 1990: 224; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 114; Bolton, 1995b: 256.

Citations

• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:51-62. PDF
• Arnol'di, K. V.; Dlussky, G. M. 1978. Superfam. Formicoidea. 1. Fam. Formicidae - ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 519-556 in: Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) 1978. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 1. [In Russian.]. Opredeliteli Faune SSSR 119:3-584.
• Atanassov, N.; Dlussky, G. M. 1992. Fauna of Bulgaria. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. [In Bulgarian.]. Fauna na Bûlgariya 22:1-310.
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990. Ants of Turkmenistan. [In Russian.]. Ashkabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921b. Formiche raccolte a Budrum (Anatolia) da Raffaele Varriale, Cap. medico nella R. Marina. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 49[=(3)9]:208-218. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. 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