Messor capensis st. decipiens Santschi, 1917e: 94 (w.q.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal (R.C. Wroughton) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 805; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Cape Colony (R.C. Wroughton). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimens: CASENT0907714, CASENT0907715.