• Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 242 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972b: 238 (l.)
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Creighton, 1950a: 143
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster texana: Smith, 1951c: 797.
• Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 143; Smith, 1958a: 113; Smith, 1958c: 117; Smith, 1967a: 352; Smith, 1979: 1361; Deyrup et al., 1989: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 69; Deyrup, 2003: 44; Coovert, 2005: 45; Deyrup, 2017: 47; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 241 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Aphaenogaster macrospina: Smith, 1958a: 113; Smith, 1967a: 352; Smith, 1979: 1361; Bolton, 1995b: 69; Coovert, 2005: 45; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 241.
• Senior synonym of Aphaenogaster nana: Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 241

Junior synonyms

• Aphaenogaster macrospina Smith, 1934
  Obsolete combination(s): Aphaenogaster texana macrospina
• Aphaenogaster nana Wheeler, 1932
  Obsolete combination(s): Aphaenogaster texana nana

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster texana flemingi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Coovert, G. A. 2005. The ants of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (New Series) 15 (2):1-196. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Deyrup, M. 2003. An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 86:43-48. PDF
• Deyrup, M. 2017. Ants of Florida. Identification and natural history. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis group), 423 pp.
• Deyrup, M.; Johnson, C.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989. A preliminary list of the ants of Florida. Florida Entomologist 72:91-101. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1928c. An additional annotated list of the ants of Mississippi. With a description of a new species of Aphaenogaster (Hym.: Formicidae) (continued from page 246). Entomological News 39:275-279. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1958a ("1957"). New synonymy of a North American ant, Aphaenogaster macrospina M. R. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 52:113. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1972b. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmicinae: second supplement on the tribes Myrmicini and Pheidolini. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 7:233-246. PDF