• Combination in Myrmelachista (Decamera): Emery, 1925d: 33.
• Combination in Myrmelachista (Hincksidris): Kempf, 1972b: 150.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 175; Forel, 1895b: 106; Forel, 1907h: 9; Emery, 1925d: 33; Borgmeier, 1927c: 139; Wheeler, 1942: 255; Kempf, 1972b: 150; Zolessi et al., 1988: 6; Brandão, 1991: 358; Bolton, 1995b: 276; Wild, 2007b: 29, 44.
• Senior synonym of Myrmelachista nodigera flavicornis: Wild, 2007b: 44.
• Senior synonym of Myrmelachista nodigera pallida: Wild, 2007b: 44.

Junior synonyms

• Myrmelachista nodigera flavicornis Emery, 1896
• Myrmelachista nodigera pallida Forel, 1909

Citations

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