Taxonomic history
[First available use of Messor barbarus structor alexandri Santschi, 1917; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921b PDF: 212; Emery, 1921c PDF: 73; Santschi, 1926f PDF: 292.Subspecies of Messor structor: Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014 PDF: 134 (error).Status as species: Collingwood, 1993b PDF: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 252; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009 PDF: 42; Legakis, 2011 PDF: 9; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 511; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 101; Lebas et al., 2016: 298.
