• Status as species (as Messor denticulatus): Tarbinsky, 1976: 61 (redescription); Arnol'di, 1977b: 1641 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 537 (in key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 271 (in key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 219; Bolton, 1995b: 253; Legakis, 2011: 10; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 513; Borowiec, 2014: 105.
• Senior synonym of Messor denticulatus: Santschi, 1927e: 247; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 18; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1641 (in key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 220.
• [Note: Santschi, Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, Arnol’di, and Dlussky, et al., all give Messor denticulatus as senior synonym, but Messor laboriosus has priority.]

Obsolete combinations

• Messor minor laboriosus

Citations

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• Arnol'di, K. V.; Dlussky, G. M. 1978. Superfam. Formicoidea. 1. Fam. Formicidae - ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 519-556 in: Medvedev, G. S. (ed.) 1978. Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 1. [In Russian.]. Opredeliteli Faune SSSR 119:3-584.
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2012. Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 23 (4):461-563. PDF
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• Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. PDF
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• Santschi, F. 1927e. Révision myrmécologique. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 67:240-248. PDF
• Tarbinsky, Y. S. 1976. The ants of Kirghizia. [In Russian.]. Frunze: Ilim, 217 pp. PDF