• [Unjustified emendation of spelling to destructrix: Schulz, 1906: 156.]
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 170 (l.)
• Combination in Gigantiops: Roger, 1863b: 11.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 49; Mayr, 1863a: 414; Roger, 1863b: 11; Forel, 1879a: 126 (redescription); Mayr, 1884: 31; Dalla Torre, 1893: 175; Forel, 1895b: 106; Mann, 1916: 473; Wheeler, 1916c: 13; Wheeler, 1918b: 26; Wheeler, 1922c: 185; Wheeler, 1923a: 4; Emery, 1925d: 49; Borgmeier, 1927c: 142; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 215; Kempf, 1970b: 340; Kempf, 1972b: 110; Brandão, 1991: 344; Bolton, 1995b: 207; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 114; Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019: 735.
• Senior synonym of Gigantiops solitaria: Roger, 1862c: 287; Mayr, 1863a: 414; Roger, 1863b: 11; Forel, 1879a: 126; Dalla Torre, 1893: 175; Forel, 1895b: 106; Emery, 1925d: 49; Kempf, 1972b: 110; Bolton, 1995b: 207.

Junior synonyms

• Gigantiops solitaria (Smith, 1858)
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica solitaria

Obsolete combinations

• Formica destructor

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