• Combination in Harpagoxenus: Emery, 1924f: 266.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 121.
• Subspecies of Harpagoxenus sublaevis: Emery, 1924f: 266; Stitz, 1939: 154; Bolton, 1995b: 211.
• Junior synonym of Harpagoxenus sublaevis: Mayr, 1861: 56 (in key); Roger, 1863b: 26; Mayr, 1863a: 457; Dours, 1873: 170; Emery & Forel, 1879: 457; Dalla Torre, 1893: 64; Ruzsky, 1905b: 563; Collingwood, 1971: 160; Radchenko, 2007: 32; Radchenko, 2016: 202; Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 166.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica hirtula

Citations

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