| Authorship | Forel, 1910e: 15 | 
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| Forms | w. | 
| Bioregion | Afrotropic | 
| Locality | NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Namibia (“German Southwest Africa”): Great Namaland, Kubub, 1903 (L. Schultze) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 806; no lectotype designated), South Africa: Cape Prov., Steckstown (Wartmann). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907748, CASENT0907749. | 
| Messor denticornis parvidens | Subspecies | Synonym junior synonym of current valid taxon Messor denticornis Forel, 1910 | Original combination |