• [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Messor regalis sculpturatus Stitz, 1916 (Bolton, 1995b: 257).]
• Combination equivocal: Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 360; Bolton, 1982: 341.
• Incertae sedis in Messor: Bolton, 1995b: 257.
• Status as species: Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 360; Burnham, 1979: 111; Bolton, 1982: 341; Bolton, 1995b: 257.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmicine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 45:307-370. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Burnham, L. 1979 ("1978"). Survey of social insects in the fossil record. Psyche (Cambridge) 85:85-133. PDF
• Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70:1-66. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M.; Creighton, W. S. 1934. A study of the ant genera Novomessor and Veromessor. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 69:341-387. PDF