Messor platyceras rubella

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Messor structor.

Nomenclature

 * rubella. Messor platyceras var. rubella Crawley, 1920a: 164 (s.w.m.) IRAN.
 * Junior synonym of clivorum: Emery, 1921b: 210 (footnote); Bolton, 1995b: 256 (error).
 * Junior synonym of structor: Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 224; Radchenko, 2016: 171.