• [First available use of Messor minor laboriosus syriacus Santschi, 1927d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Tohmé, 1969a: 9 (m.); Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 146 (q.m.).
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1927e: 247.
• Subspecies of Messor minor: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1640 (in key); Arakelian, 1994: 37.
• Status as species: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 145; Collingwood, 1985: 252; Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 257; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 322; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 43; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 21; Borowiec, 2014: 113; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 135; Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019: 177; Salata et al., 2023: 228 (redescription).

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