Extant: 2 valid subspecies
Messor antennatus Emery, 1908f PDF: 441, fig. 3 (w.) MOROCCO. Palearctic. AntCat AntWiki HOLTaxonomic history
Menozzi, 1922b PDF: 354 (q.); Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998 PDF: 431 (m.).Status as species: Stitz, 1917 PDF: 342; Emery, 1921c PDF: 69; Menozzi, 1922a PDF: 354; Santschi, 1929e PDF: 142; Finzi, 1930b PDF: 15; Santschi, 1931a: 3; Cagniant, 1964 PDF: 87; Bernard, 1980b PDF: 267; Bolton, 1995b: 252; Cagniant & Espadaler, 1998 PDF: 431; Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 197; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 511; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 101 (see note in bibliography); Barech et al., 2020 10.35929/RSZ.0002 PDF: 17.