• Combination in Ponera: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 196.
• Combination in Gnamptogenys: Mayr, 1866b: 892 (in text).
• Combination in Ectatomma (Gnamptogenys): Emery, 1893m: 25.
• Subspecies of Gnamptogenys mordax: Emery, 1896g: 50
• Status as species: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 196 (redescription); Roger, 1861a: 18; Roger, 1861b: 170; Mayr, 1863a: 449; Dalla Torre, 1893: 25; Emery, 1911e: 45.
• Nomen oblitum, junior synonym of Gnamptogenys mordax: Brown, 1958g: 228; Kempf, 1972b: 113; Bolton, 1995b: 210; Lattke, 1995: 176.
• [Note: Brown, 1958g: 320, regards Gnamptogenys nodosa as nomen oblitum as it has “not been used except in catalogs”, whereas Gnamptogenys mordax “has been used for this common ant for nearly a century.”]

Obsolete combinations

• Formica nodosa

Citations

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