• Lectotype designation: DuBois, 1981b: 36.
• [Also described as new by Emery, 1895d: 273, pl. 8, figs. 11, 12.]
• Combination in Monomorium: Ettershank, 1966: 91
• Status as species: Wasmann, 1894: 165; Wheeler, 1901e: 720; Wheeler, 1910a: 563; Emery, 1922c: 205; Creighton, 1950a: 241; Smith, 1951c: 815; Ettershank, 1966: 91; Kutter, 1968c: 203; Smith, 1979: 1383; DuBois, 1981b: 36; DuBois, 1986: 113 (redescription); Bolton, 1987: 299; Bolton, 1995b: 265; Coovert, 2005: 64.

Obsolete combinations

• Epoecus pergandei

Citations

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