• Combination in Monomorium (Xeromyrmex): Emery, 1922c: 177
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 67; Emery, 1893h: 256; Emery, 1895g: 337; Emery, 1922c: 177; Santschi, 1936a: 36 (redescription); Ettershank, 1966: 90; Collingwood, 1985: 271; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 349; Collingwood et al., 2011: 435; Borowiec, 2014: 121; Madl, 2019: 15; Borowiec & Salata, 2020: 13.

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