• Subspecies of Meranoplus nanus: Wheeler, 1922: 888; Finzi, 1939a: 165.
• Status as species: Emery, 1915e: 15; Arnold, 1917: 365; Emery, 1924f: 227; Bolton, 1981a: 52 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 251; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 212; Madl, 2019: 15.
• Senior synonym of Meranoplus nanus affinis: Bolton, 1981a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 251.
• Senior synonym of Meranoplus nanus kiboshana: Bolton, 1981a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 251.
• Senior synonym of Meranoplus nanus nanior: Bolton, 1981a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 251.
• Senior synonym of Meranoplus nanus soriculus: Bolton, 1981a: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 251.

Junior synonyms

• Meranoplus nanus affinis Baroni Urbani, 1971
• Meranoplus nanus kiboshana Emery, 1924
• Meranoplus nanus nanior Forel, 1907
• Meranoplus nanus soriculus Wheeler, 1922

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:271-402. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1981a. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 42:43-81. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
• Emery, C. 1915e. Formiche raccolte nell'Eritrea dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 10:3-26. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Finzi, B. 1939a. Materiali zoologici dell'Eritrea raccolti da G. Müller durante la spedizione dell'Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese e conservati al Museo di Trieste. Parte III. Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste 14:153-168. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
• Madl, M. 2019. Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B Für Botanik Und Zoologie 121:9-18. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.