• Junior synonym of the unavailable name Messor barbarus clivorum karawayewi Santschi, 1917e: Santschi, 1927e: 248.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1970b: 375 (in text).
• Junior synonym of Messor karawajevi: Tarbinsky, 1976: 59.
• Junior synonym of Messor rufus: Santschi, 1927e: 248; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 6; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1642 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 257.

Citations

• 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.
• Collingwood, C. A. 1970b. Formicidae (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) from Nepal. Khumbu Himal. Ergebnisse des Forschungsunternehmens Nepal Himalaya 3:371-387.
• Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, N. N. 1927a. Vorläufige Uebersicht über die mittelasiatischen Formen der Gattung Messor (Hym., Form.). Folia Myrmecologica et Termitologica 1:89-94. 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
• Santschi, F. 1927e. Révision myrmécologique. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 67:240-248. PDF
• Tarbinsky, Y. S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. [In Russian.]. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. PDF