• [First available use of Stenamma fulvum aquia rude Emery, 1895; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• [Type-locality designated as Virginia by Creighton, 1950a: 148.]
• Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 392 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953b: 56 (l.); Crozier, 1970a: 125 (k.).
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 57.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1904e: 303; Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Wheeler, 1917a: 517; Emery, 1921c: 57; Dennis, 1938: 287.
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster fulva: Enzmann, 1947b: 150 (in key); Smith, 1951c: 796.
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster picea: Bolton, 1995b: 72; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 77.
• [Note: Aphaenogaster picea was made available earlier than Aphaenogaster rudis; hence Aphaenogaster picea has priority (Bolton, 1995b: 72).]
• Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 147; Smith, 1958c: 118; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 352; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Smith, 1979: 1362; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 36 (in key); DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 137; Wheeler et al., 1994: 302; Umphrey, 1996: 558 (in key); Coovert, 2005: 49; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 71; Ellison et al., 2012: 231; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 389 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster fulva rudis

Citations

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