Key to Messor (Workers)

Genus Messor
Forel, 1890

Messor (2)
Psammophorus (long "J" shaped hairs forming a basket) present on the gula	Gula and mandibles with numerous uneven quetae, and not forming a basket. The whole body covered with erect to decumbent pilosity

Grupo aegyptiacus (bouvieri, celiae, hispanicus, lusitanicus, marocanus, timidus)	Grupo barbarus (barbarus, capitatus); Grupo structor (structor)
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