• Emery, 1875a: 75 (w.); Emery, 1875b: 473 (w.); André, 1883b: 404 (m.)
• Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1672.
• Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani, 1998b: 163; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 115.
• Status as species: Emery, 1875a: 75; Emery, 1875b: 473; Emery & Forel, 1879: 465; Mayr, 1883: 141; André, 1883b: 402 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 148; Santschi, 1911f: 78; Donisthorpe, 1916b: 121; Emery, 1916a: 206; Bondroit, 1918: 169; Müller, 1921: 48; Soudek, 1922b: 57; Müller, 1923b: 107; Emery, 1924f: 327; Vandel, 1926: 198; Finzi, 1930d: 315; Grandi, 1935: 102; Finzi, 1939b: 90; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 88 (in key); Arnol'di, 1948a: 211 (in list); Brown, 1949c: 44 (redescription); Brown, 1962b: 79 (in key); Bernard, 1967a: 245 (redescription); Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 155; Bolton, 1972: 208 (in key); Baroni Urbani, 1974a: 235; Kutter, 1977c: 168; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 53; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 265 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 258; Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990c: 435; Arakelian & Dlussky, 1991: 150; Mei, 1992a: 419; Mei, 1995: 766; Bolton, 1995b: 188; Poldi et al., 1995: 6; Espadaler, 1997g: 29; Bolton, 2000: 288 (redescription); Bračko, 2006: 140; Cagniant, 2006: 195; Petrov, 2006: 84 (in key); Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 492; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 44; Csősz et al., 2011: 56; Legakis, 2011: 4; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 533; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 24; Borowiec, 2014: 165; Lebas et al., 2016: 340; Steiner et al., 2017: 16; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 48; Seifert, 2018: 152; Bračko, 2023: 85; Guariento et al., 2023: 155.
• Senior synonym of Strumigenys argiola barbara: Brown, 1949c: 44; Arakelian & Dlussky, 1991: 150; Bolton, 1995b: 188; Bolton, 2000: 288.

Junior synonyms

• Strumigenys argiola barbara (Santschi, 1923)
  Obsolete combination(s): Epitritus argiolus barbara

Obsolete combinations

• Epitritus argiolus

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