• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 432; Motschoulsky, 1863: 15; Smith, 1871a: 327.
• Junior synonym of Monomorium pharaonis: Mayr, 1886c: 359; Forel, 1891c: 164; Dalla Torre, 1893: 68; Wheeler, 1908a: 127; Forel, 1915d: 39 (in key); Wheeler, 1919d: 271; Emery, 1922c: 174; Wheeler, 1922: 866; Karavaiev, 1934: 118; Bolton, 1987: 356; Bolton, 1995b: 260; Zhou, 2001a: 113; Heterick, 2006: 101; Radchenko, 2016: 186.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica contigua

Citations

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