• [First available use of Messor barbarus semirufus intermedius Forel, 1910a; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Menozzi, 1933b: 53 (q.m.).
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921c: 72; Santschi, 1921a: 110; Emery, 1922d: 97; Santschi, 1939c: 6.
• Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Menozzi, 1927e: 117 (date of publication 10.xi.1927); Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 22; Menozzi, 1933b: 53; Santschi, 1934d: 275.
• Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974a: 227
• Status as species: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1640 (in key); Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 142; Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 211; Dlussky et al., 1990: 222; Bolton, 1995b: 254; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 318; Paknia et al., 2008: 155; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 42; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 514; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 19; Borowiec, 2014: 107; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 134; Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2019: 172.

Obsolete combinations

• Messor semirufus intermedius

Citations

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