Taxonomic history
[First available use of Messor barbarus semirufus maculifrons Santschi, 1917; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].[Note: the Caucasus locality is probably Georgia (Tbilisi), as recorded in Santschi, 1927d PDF: 228.].As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1921c PDF: 72; Emery, 1922d PDF: 97.Subspecies of Messor semirufus: Finzi, 1936 PDF: 159.Junior synonym of Messor semirufus: Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 227.Status as species: Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981 PDF: 143; Bolton, 1995b: 255; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009 PDF: 42; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 108; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014 PDF: 134.
