• Combination in Aphaenogaster: Mayr, 1886c: 365
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster fulva: Emery, 1895d: 304; Wheeler, 1902g: 27; Wheeler, 1904f: 303; Wheeler, 1905j: 383; Wheeler, 1906g: 5; Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Wheeler, 1913d: 114; Wheeler, 1916r: 586; Wheeler, 1917a: 517; Wheeler, 1917k: 461; Emery, 1921c: 57; Smith, 1928b: 246; Smith, 1928c: 275; Smith, 1930a: 4; Wheeler, 1932a: 4; Dennis, 1938: 286; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 93; Buren, 1944a: 284; Enzmann, 1947b: 151 (in key); Smith, 1951c: 796.
• Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Aphaenogaster: Creighton, 1950a: 148; Smith, 1958c: 117; Smith, 1979: 1363; Bolton, 1995b: 68.
• Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster fulva: Mayr, 1886c: 365; Mayr, 1886d: 445; Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 13; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 253.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica aquia
• Stenamma fulvum aquia

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