Messor muscatus Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 320, fig. 7 (w.) OMAN. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Oman: Ras al-Hamra, Muscat, 19.vi.1985 (C. Holzschuh). Type-depository: NHMB (perhaps also in WMLC). Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 4 paratype workers. Paratype-locality: 1 paratype worker with same data as holotype, 1 paratype worker Saudi Arabia: Wadi Shijah, 4.v.1976 (W. Büttiker), 2 paratype workers Yemen: Madinat al-Shariq, 7.iii.1993 (C.A. Collingwood). Paratype-depository: NHMB (perhaps also in WMLC).