• Mackay, 2004: 98 (q.)
• Combination in Acanthostichus (Acanthostichus): Emery, 1911e: 13.
• Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 140; Emery, 1895l: 752; Emery, 1911e: 13; Mann, 1916: 401; Borgmeier, 1923: 51; Wheeler, 1934g: 162 (in key); Kusnezov, 1953c: 339; Kusnezov, 1962a: 130; Kempf, 1972b: 10; Brown, 1975: 42; Bolton, 1995b: 54; MacKay, 1996: 144 (redescription); Mackay, 2004: 98; Wild, 2007b: 23.
• Senior synonym of Acanthostichus ramosmexiae: Kusnezov, 1962a: 130; Kempf, 1972b: 10; Brown, 1975: 42; Bolton, 1995b: 54; MacKay, 1996: 144.

Junior synonyms

• Acanthostichus ramosmexiae Bruch, 1924

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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