• Karaman & Kiran, 2017a: 639 (w.m.); Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 127 (s.)
• Combination in Oligomyrmex (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924f: 218.
• Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 75; Emery, 1909a: 36; Emery, 1924f: 218; Ettershank, 1966: 124; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 265 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 300; Petrov, 2006: 84 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 14; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 485; Borowiec, 2014: 50 (see note in bibliography); Karaman & Kiran, 2017a: 639 (redescription); Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 13; Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 127.

Obsolete combinations

• Oligomyrmex oertzeni

Citations

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