• Lectotype designation: Longino & Cover, 2004: 10.
• [Also described as new by Emery, 1894l: 54.]
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Ischnomyrmex): Forel, 1899e: 59
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma): Emery, 1915k: 71
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 104; Forel, 1899b: 59; Emery, 1915k: 71; Emery, 1921c: 65; Mann, 1922: 24; Kempf, 1972b: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 72; Longino & Cover, 2004: 10; Mackay & Dash, 2016: 8; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 353 (redescription); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 799.

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