• Wheeler, 1927h: 84 (m.); Wheeler, 1928c: 8 (q.)
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 109; Wheeler, 1927d: 2; Wheeler, 1927h: 84; Wheeler, 1928c: 8; Wheeler, 1930k: 61; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 41; Brown, 1978c: 558, 577; Wang, 1993a: 226 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 65; Tang et al., 1995: 30; Zhou, 2001a: 29; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 103; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 58; Chen et al., 2019: 64 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Anochetus taiwaniensis: Chen et al., 2019: 64.

Junior synonyms

• Anochetus taiwaniensis Terayama, 1989

Citations

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