• [Junior homonym of Goniothorax Milne-Edwards, 1879: 103 (Crustacea).]
• Goniothorax Emery, 1896g in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Goniothorax Emery, 1896g in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Forel, 1917: 244.
• Goniothorax Emery, 1896g as genus: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Goniothorax Emery, 1896g as subgenus of Leptothorax: Ruzsky, 1905b: 158; Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Forel, 1917: 244; Wheeler, 1922: 679, 890, 1029; Emery, 1924f: 249; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 648; Creighton, 1950a: 259.
• Goniothorax Emery, 1896g as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Bolton, 1982: 319; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Ogata, 1991b: 93.
• Replacement name: Nesomyrmex Wheeler, 1910d.
• [Note: Nesomyrmex Wheeler, 1910d is the oldest junior synonym of Goniothorax Emery, 1896g and hence is the first available replacement name (Smith, 1950a: 30; Bolton, 1995b: 30; Bolton, 2003: 249, 272).]
• [Goniomyrmex: incorrect subsequent spelling by Ashmead, 1905c: 383.]

Obsolete classifications

• Leptothorax (Goniothorax)

Citations

• Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.]. Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
• Smith, M. R. 1950a. On the status of Leptothorax Mayr and some of its subgenera. Psyche (Cambridge) 57:29-30. PDF
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• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.