• Lectotype designation: Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 358.
• [First available use of Stenamma fulvum aquia piceum Emery, 1895d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 57
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1900c: 48; Wheeler, 1901e: 724; Wheeler, 1904f: 303; Wheeler, 1905j: 383; Wheeler, 1906g: 6; Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Wheeler, 1916r: 586; Emery, 1921c: 57; Smith, 1928c: 275; Dennis, 1938: 286; Wing, 1939: 162; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 93; Smith, 1951c: 796.
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster fulva: Buren, 1944a: 284.
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster rudis: Enzmann, 1947b: 150 (in key); Creighton, 1950a: 148; Smith, 1958c: 118; Smith, 1967a: 352; Smith, 1979: 1362.
• [Note: Aphaenogaster picea was made available earlier than Aphaenogaster rudis; hence Aphaenogaster picea has priority (Bolton, 1995b: 72).]
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 72; Umphrey, 1996: 558 (in key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 76; Coovert, 2005: 48; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 71; Ellison et al., 2012: 230; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 358 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Aphaenogaster punctithorax: Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 358

Junior synonyms

• Aphaenogaster punctithorax Cole, 1938
  Obsolete combination(s): Aphaenogaster texana punctithorax

Obsolete combinations

• Stenamma fulvum piceum

Citations

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