Name Authorship Pages Forms Locality Notes
Messor barbarus var. nigriceps Santschi, 1925g 341 w.q. SPAIN
Messor barbarus var. polita Karavaiev, 1912a 6 s.w. ALGERIA
Messor barbarus var. santschi Santschi, 1910a 44 (in text) w. TUNISIA
Messor barbarus var. sultana Santschi, 1917e 89 w. ISRAEL
Messor berbericus Bernard, 1955a 357, fig. 1B w. ALGERIA
Messor bernardi Cagniant, 1967a 131, figs. 1-11 w.q.m. ALGERIA
Messor bouvieri Bondroit, 1918 154, fig. 75 s.w. FRANCE
Messor boyeri Cagniant, 2006b 9, figs. 1-3 s.w.q.m. MOROCCO
Messor braunsi Forel, 1913a 138 w. SOUTH AFRICA
Messor braunsi var. nigriventris Stitz, 1923 150 w. NAMIBIA
Messor bucephalus Salata et al., 2023 217, figs. 1-8, 23 s.w. CYPRUS
Messor buettikeri Collingwood, 1985 249, fig. 22 w.q.m. SAUDI ARABIA
Messor caducus subsp. caucasicola Arnol'di, 1977b 1639 w.q.m. GEORGIA
Messor caducus subsp. glabrescens Arnol'di, 1977b 1639 w. RUSSIA (Dagestan)
Messor capensis st. decipiens Santschi, 1917e 94 w.q. SOUTH AFRICA
Messor capensis var. probus Wheeler, 1922 805 w. SOUTH AFRICA
Messor capensis var. schencki Wheeler, 1922 805 w. NAMIBIA
Messor capensis var. tropicorum Wheeler, 1922 805 w. ANGOLA
Messor carthaginensis Bernard, 1980b 268, fig. 2CT w. TUNISIA
Messor celiae Reyes, 1985 255, figs. 1-3 w.m. SPAIN
Messor ceresis Santschi, 1934d 274 w. LEBANON
Messor chamberlini Wheeler, 1915b 410 w. U.S.A. (California)
Messor clivorum subsp. sevani Arnol'di, 1977b 1644 (in key) w. ARMENIA (Sewan I.)
Messor clivorum subsp. turcmenochorassanicus Arnol'di, 1977b 1639 w.q. TURKMENISTAN
Messor collingwoodi Bolton, 1982 346, fig. 30 w. NIGER
Messor creticus Salata & Borowiec, 2019a 58, figs. 9-12 s.w. GREECE (Crete)
Messor danaes Salata et al., 2023 121, figs. 15-20 s.w. GREECE
Messor denticornis Forel, 1910e 14 w.q.m. NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Messor denticornis var. brunni Forel, 1910f 444 w. NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Messor denticornis var. laevifrons Stitz, 1923 148 w. NAMIBIA
Messor denticornis var. parvidens Forel, 1910e 15 w. NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Messor denticornis var. striatifrons Stitz, 1923 149 w. NAMIBIA
Messor desertora He & Song, 2009 722, figs. 1, 2 w. CHINA (Inner Mongolia)
Messor diabarensis Arnol'di, 1970a 75, fig. 2(1,2) s.q.m. AZERBAIJAN
Messor donisthorpei Santschi, 1937a 51 w.q. NAMIBIA
Messor eglalae Sharaf, 2007b 239, figs. 5, 6 w. EGYPT
Messor erectus Espadaler, 1998 430, figs. 26, 41 w.m. MOROCCO
Messor erwini Orou et al., 2023 51, fig. 11, tables S1, 7 s.w. SPAIN
Messor excursionis subsp. alaschanicus Ruzsky, 1915a 442, figs. 25-27 w. MONGOLIA
Messor excursionis var. macrops Santschi, 1927e 248 w. TURKMENISTAN
Messor excursionis var. sillemi Stärcke, 1935a 262 w. CHINA (Xinjiang)
Messor ferreri Collingwood, 1993a 229, figs. 13-15 w. KENYA
Messor galla st. nobilis Santschi, 1928f 201 w.q. ETHIOPIA
Messor galla var. airensis Bernard, 1950c 286 w.q. NIGER
Messor galla var. angularis Santschi, 1928f 202 w. KENYA
Messor galla var. obscurus Menozzi & Consani, 1952 61 w. ETHIOPIA Attributed to Santschi.
Messor galla var. triimpressa Santschi, 1930a 58 w. CHAD, ETHIOPIA, SENEGAL
Messor hellenius Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a 54 w.q. GREECE
Messor hismai Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 318, fig. 4 w. SAUDI ARABIA
Messor hodnii Barech et al., 2020 10, figs. 1-3 w. ALGERIA