• Clark, 1930b: 257 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 176 (l.); Crozier, 1970a: 119 (k.)
• Combination in Hypoclinea: Mayr, 1876: 79.
• Combination in Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea): Emery, 1894d: 228.
• Combination in Dolichoderus (Diceratoclinea): Wheeler, 1935c: 69.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 408; Roger, 1863b: 10; Mayr, 1870b: 956 (in key); Mayr, 1876: 79 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 161; Stitz, 1911a: 370; Emery, 1913a: 13; Clark, 1929b: 122; Clark, 1930b: 257 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 94; Taylor, 1987a: 25; Shattuck, 1994: 64; Bolton, 1995b: 176; Shattuck & Marsden, 2013: 134 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Dolichoderus foveolatus: Mayr, 1870b: 953; Mayr, 1876: 80; Dalla Torre, 1893: 161; Emery, 1913a: 13; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 94; Taylor, 1987a: 25; Bolton, 1995b: 176; Shattuck & Marsden, 2013: 134.
• Senior synonym of Dolichoderus scabridus ruficornis: Shattuck & Marsden, 2013: 134.

Junior synonyms

• Dolichoderus foveolatus (Lowne, 1865)
  Obsolete combination(s): Polyrhachis foveolatus
• Dolichoderus scabridus ruficornis Santschi, 1916

Citations

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