• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 60
• Status as species: Emery, 1921c: 60; Cole, 1936a: 36; Cole, 1942: 364; Creighton, 1950a: 154; Smith, 1951c: 798; Smith, 1958c: 119; Smith, 1967a: 352; Yensen et al., 1977: 183; Smith, 1979: 1363; Allred, 1982: 454; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 37; Bolton, 1995b: 74; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 78; Ward, 2005: 65; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 434 (redescription).

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