Taxonomic history
[First available use of Messor barbarus meridionalis infumatus Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Status as species: Tarbinsky, 1976 PDF: 57; He & Song, 2009 PDF: 723.Subspecies of Messor meridionalis: Pisarski, 1967a PDF: 384.Subspecies of Messor aralocaspius: Arnol'di, 1977b PDF: 1642; Bolton, 1995b: 254; Schultz et al., 2006 PDF: 206; Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 45.
