• Emery, 1893l: 135 (s.); Emery, 1896a: 2 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 193 (l.)
• Combination in Liometopum: Mayr, 1878: 870.
• Combination in Azteca: Emery, 1893l: 135.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 14; Mayr, 1863a: 455; Mayr, 1878: 870; Forel, 1886a: 217; Dalla Torre, 1893: 163; Emery, 1893l: 135 (redescription); von Jhering, 1894: 379; Emery, 1896a: 2; Forel, 1899b: 107; Emery, 1906c: 174; Wheeler, 1907b: 275; Emery, 1913a: 33; Santschi, 1913h: 41; Wheeler, 1916c: 12; Crawley, 1916b: 375; Mann, 1922: 51; Borgmeier, 1923: 93; Menozzi, 1935b: 199; Wheeler, 1942: 229; Kempf, 1972b: 32; Shattuck, 1994: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 79; Longino, 2007: 35 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 253; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 108; Guerrero, 2019: 706.
• Senior synonym of Azteca instabilis major: Longino, 2007: 35

Junior synonyms

• Azteca instabilis major Forel, 1899

Obsolete combinations

• Tapinoma instabilis

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