Taxonomic history
[First available use of Messor barbarus semirufus dentatus Forel, 1910; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Menozzi, 1933b PDF: 54 (q.).As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1911f PDF: 346; Emery, 1921c PDF: 72; Emery, 1922d PDF: 97.Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Menozzi, 1933b PDF: 53; Aktaç, 1977 PDF: 120.Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 227.Status as species: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981 PDF: 143; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 54; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 271 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Petrov, 2006 PDF: 92 (in key); Paknia et al., 2008 PDF: 154; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009 PDF: 42; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 19; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 104; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014 PDF: 134.
