• Combination in Aphaenogaster: Roger, 1863b: 29
• Combination in Messor: Emery, 1921b: 211
• Subspecies of Messor barbarus: Emery, 1921b: 211
• Subspecies of Messor structor: Santschi, 1926f: 290; Santschi, 1927d: 247; Menozzi, 1933b: 54; Santschi, 1934d: 275; Santschi, 1939c: 6; Pisarski, 1975: 16.
• Status as species: Röszler, 1942a: 51; Röszler, 1942b: 32; Röszler, 1951: 88; Bernard, 1955a: 361 (in key); Bernard, 1956b: 258; Baroni Urbani, 1964b: 41; Pisarski, 1967a: 383; Bernard, 1967a: 144 (redescription); Kutter, 1968b: 59; Pisarski, 1970a: 306; Arnol'di, 1970a: 79; Tarbinsky, 1976: 54; Van Boven, 1977: 88; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 63; Kutter, 1977c: 82; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1643 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); Bernard, 1981b: 143.
• Junior synonym of Messor structor: Nylander, 1856b: 85; Smith, 1858a: 162; Smith, 1861a: 35; Mayr, 1863a: 397; Roger, 1863b: 29; Forel, 1874: 101 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 462; Nasonov, 1889: 37; Dalla Torre, 1893: 105; Ruzsky, 1905b: 728; Emery, 1921c: 73; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990b: 154; Dlussky et al., 1990: 224; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 115; Arakelian, 1994: 39; Bolton, 1995b: 256; Gallé et al., 1998: 214; Czechowski et al., 2002: 37; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 139; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 489; Csősz et al., 2011: 56; Legakis, 2011: 11; Czechowski et al., 2012: 120; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 20; Radchenko, 2016: 171; Steiner et al., 2018: 399.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica rufitarsis
• Messor barbarus rufitarsis
• Messor structor rufitarsis

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