• Wheeler, 1907d: 704 (q.m.)
• Combination in Atta (Acromyrmex): Emery, 1895d: 330
• Combination in Atta (Moellerius): Emery, 1905f: 108
• Combination in Acromyrmex (Moellerius): Emery, 1924f: 351
• Status as species: Emery, 1895d: 330; Forel, 1899b: 36; Emery, 1905f: 43; Wheeler, 1907d: 703 (redescription); Wheeler, 1910a: 568; Emery, 1924f: 351; Santschi, 1925a: 389 (in key); Essig, 1926: 862; Cole, 1937b: 136; Creighton, 1950a: 326; Smith, 1951c: 832; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1413; Snelling & George, 1979: 151; Fowler, 1988b: 291; Cherrett & Cherrett, 1989: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 57; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 68; Ward, 2005: 31; Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 11.
• Senior synonym of Acromyrmex versicolor chisosensis: Snelling & George, 1979: 151; Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 11.

Junior synonyms

• Acromyrmex versicolor chisosensis (Wheeler, 1907)
  Obsolete combination(s): Atta versicolor chisosensis

Obsolete combinations

• Atta versicolor

Citations

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