| Authorship | Karavaiev, 1911a: 67, fig. 33 | 
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| Forms | w. | 
| Bioregion | Palearctic | 
| Locality | TURKMENISTAN | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Turkmenistan: chasm of Firusinka stream, nr Firusa (W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories: SIZK. Primary type specimen: CASENT0916922. | 
| Type notes | Kostyuk, 1976: 95, cites 5 worker syntypes in SIZK. | 
| Messor barbarus reticuliventris | Subspecies | 
Obsolete combination
 an obsolete combination of Messor reticuliventris Karavaiev, 1911 
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Original combination | 
| Messor reticuliventris | Species | Valid |