• Mayr, 1901b: 7 (q.); Karavaiev, 1911b: 6 (m.); Athias-Henriot, 1947: 249 (l.)
• Combination in Monomorium (Xeromyrmex): Wheeler, 1922: 869
• Subspecies of Monomorium bicolor: Mayr, 1904b: 4; Emery, 1908j: 677; Forel, 1910f: 441; Karavaiev, 1911b: 5; Forel, 1914d: 244; Santschi, 1914b: 73; Santschi, 1914d: 353 (in key); Arnold, 1916: 209; Wheeler & Mann, 1916: 170; Wheeler, 1922: 869; Emery, 1922c: 176; Viehmeyer, 1923: 90; Santschi, 1938a: 39; Weber, 1943d: 314; Ettershank, 1966: 91.
• Subspecies of Monomorium subopacum: Santschi, 1927e: 245; Menozzi, 1932c: 94; Finzi, 1936: 177; Menozzi, 1936b: 283; Finzi, 1939a: 158; Finzi, 1940: 161; Menozzi, 1934: 155; Arnold, 1944: 14; Athias-Henriot, 1947: 249; Bernard, 1948: 144; Bernard, 1950c: 290; Bernard, 1953a: 159; Hamann & Klemm, 1967: 413.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1985: 272; Collingwood, 1993b: 194; Bolton, 1995b: 265; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 352; Paknia et al., 2008: 155; Legakis, 2011: 14; Collingwood et al., 2011: 435; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 518; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 213; Borowiec, 2014: 123.
• Senior synonym of Monomorium yemene: Sharaf et al., 2021: 40.

Junior synonyms

• Monomorium yemene Collingwood & Agosti, 1996

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium bicolor nitidiventre

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