• [First available use of Messor barbarus semirufus dentatus Forel, 1910a; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Menozzi, 1933b: 54 (q.).
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1911f: 346; Emery, 1921c: 72; Emery, 1922d: 97.
• Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Menozzi, 1933b: 53; Aktaç, 1977: 120.
• Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974a: 227
• Status as species: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 143; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Petrov, 2006: 92 (in key); Paknia et al., 2008: 154; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 42; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 19; Borowiec, 2014: 104; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 134; Borowiec & Salata, 2020: 10.

Obsolete combinations

• Messor semirufus dentatus

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
• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987b. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) with a key to the worker caste. II. Key to the worker caste, including the European species without the Iberian. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:261-293. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1911f. Fourmis nouvelles ou intéressantes. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 47:331-400. PDF
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• Menozzi, C. 1933b. Le formiche della Palestina. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 12:49-113. PDF
• Paknia, O.; Radchenko, A.; Alipanah, H.; Pfeiffer, M. 2008. A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran. Myrmecological News 11:151-159. PDF
• Petrov, I. 2006. The ants of Serbia and Montenegro. [In Serbian.]. Posebna Izdanja. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti 656:1-136. PDF
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