• [Misspelled as minutum by Cresson, 1887: 262.]
• Emery, 1895d: 274 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955c: 122 (l.); Crozier, 1970a: 116 (k.)
• Combination in Monomorium: Cresson, 1887: 262; Emery, 1895d: 274
• Subspecies of Monomorium minutum: Emery, 1895d: 274; Wheeler, 1901c: 520; Wheeler, 1902g: 27; Wheeler, 1904f: 301; Wheeler, 1905j: 377; Wheeler, 1906g: 2; Wheeler, 1906i: 336; Forel, 1907d: 18; Wheeler, 1908h: 423; Emery, 1922c: 172; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 245.
• Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 262; Dalla Torre, 1893: 112; Wheeler, 1909g: 185 (in text); Wheeler, 1910a: 562; Wheeler, 1913d: 115; Wheeler, 1914c: 42; Wheeler, 1916r: 584; Wheeler, 1917a: 501; Wheeler, 1917k: 460; Essig, 1926: 857; Smith, 1930a: 3; Cole, 1936a: 35; Wheeler, 1932a: 9; Santschi, 1936a: 43; Cole, 1936a: 35; Cole, 1937a: 99; Dennis, 1938: 279; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 92; Cole, 1942: 361; Buren, 1944a: 289; Creighton, 1950a: 219; Smith, 1951c: 810; Cole, 1953i: 299; Smith, 1958c: 128; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Cole, 1966b: 16; Beck et al., 1967: 71; Smith, 1967a: 356; Kempf, 1972b: 144; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973a: 30; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Yensen et al., 1977: 183; Smith, 1979: 1382; Snelling & George, 1979: 128; Allred, 1982: 487; DuBois, 1986: 76 (redescription); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 50; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 139; MacKay et al., 1988: 91; Deyrup et al., 1989: 96; Wheeler et al., 1994: 303; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 147; Coovert, 2005: 64; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 69; Fernández, 2007b: 137.
• Senior synonym of Monomorium atra: Emery, 1895d: 274; Wheeler, 1902g: 28; Wheeler, 1906g: 2; Wheeler, 1908h: 423; Emery, 1922c: 172; Smith, 1951c: 810; Smith, 1979: 1382; Bolton, 1995b: 264.
• Senior synonym of Monomorium metoecus: Brown, 1966d: 90; Smith, 1979: 1382; DuBois, 1986: 76; Bolton, 1995b: 264.

Junior synonyms

• Monomorium atra (Buckley, 1867)
  Obsolete combination(s): Myrmica atra
• Monomorium metoecus Brown & Wilson, 1957

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica minima

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