• Smith, 1939c: 176 (w.q. ergatoid); Snelling, 1965a: 18 (q.em.)
• Combination in Leptothorax (Mychothorax): Ruzsky, 1905b: 622; Emery, 1924f: 262.
• Combination in Mychothorax: Ruzsky, 1936: 96.
• Combination in Formicoxenus: Buschinger, 1979a: 61.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1903d: 224; Ruzsky, 1905b: 622; Wheeler, 1910a: 566; Wheeler, 1917a: 515; Emery, 1924f: 262; Kiseleva, 1925: 74; Ruzsky, 1936: 96; Smith, 1939c: 177 (redescription); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 248; Creighton, 1950a: 278; Smith, 1951c: 822; Smith, 1958c: 134; Snelling, 1965a: 16; Smith, 1967a: 360; Yensen et al., 1977: 183; Buschinger, 1979a: 61; Smith, 1979: 1397; Buschinger, 1981: 213; Allred, 1982: 484; Francoeur et al., 1985: 382 (redescription); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 51 (in key) ; Wheeler et al., 1994: 302; Bolton, 1995b: 207; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 103; Coovert, 2005: 80.
• Senior synonym of Formicoxenus hirticornis formidolosus: Smith, 1939c: 177; Creighton, 1950a: 278; Smith, 1979: 1397; Francoeur et al., 1985: 382; Bolton, 1995b: 207.

Junior synonyms

• Formicoxenus hirticornis formidolosus (Wheeler, 1915)
  Obsolete combination(s): Leptothorax hirticornis formidolosus

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax hirticornis

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