• Combination in Dorymyrmex (Conomyrma): Smith, 1951c: 837.
• Combination in Conomyrma: Snelling, 1973b: 4.
• Combination in Dorymyrmex: Snelling, 1995a: 7.
• Subspecies of Dorymyrmex pyramicus: Smith, 1951c: 837.
• Junior synonym of Dorymyrmex pyramicus: Creighton, 1950a: 349; Smith, 1958c: 141; Smith, 1979: 1420.
• Junior synonym of Dorymyrmex insanus: Snelling, 1973b: 5; Smith, 1979: 1420; Snelling & George, 1979: 171; Johnson, 1989b: 185; Shattuck, 1994: 83; Bolton, 1995b: 183.
• Status as species: Snelling, 1995a: 7; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 255; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 64.

Obsolete combinations

• Dorymyrmex pyramicus smithi

Citations

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