Taxonomic history
Combination in Messor: Ruzsky, 1903b PDF: 315; Emery, 1908f PDF: 456.As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1908f PDF: 456; Forel, 1910a PDF: 9; Karavaiev, 1911a PDF: 67; Forel, 1911f PDF: 347; Emery, 1912f PDF: 96; Wheeler & Mann, 1916 PDF: 170; Donisthorpe, 1918c PDF: 166; Emery, 1921b PDF: 212; Emery, 1921c PDF: 73; Santschi, 1926f PDF: 292; Menozzi, 1933b PDF: 54; Santschi, 1934d PDF: 275; Santschi, 1939c PDF: 6.Junior synonym of Messor structor: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d PDF: 12.Junior synonym of Messor rufitarsis darianus: Pisarski, 1967a PDF: 383; Pisarski, 1969b: 306.Subspecies of Messor structor: Ruzsky, 1903b PDF: 315; Menozzi, 1933b PDF: 56 (in key); Zimmermann, 1935 PDF: 15; Aktaç, 1977 PDF: 120; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014 PDF: 134 (error).Status as species: Collingwood, 1961a PDF: 61; Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981 PDF: 150; Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 251; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 271 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 257; Collingwood, 1993b PDF: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 256; Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002 PDF: 7; Petrov, 2006 PDF: 92 (in key); Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009 PDF: 42; Legakis, 2011 PDF: 11; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 515; Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 45; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 20; Nezhad et al., 2012 PDF: 70; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 110; Lebas et al., 2016: 298.
