• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 138 (l.)
• Subspecies of Myrmelachista ambigua: Mann, 1920b: 435; Emery, 1925d: 32; Menozzi & Russo, 1930: 165; Wheeler, 1942: 254.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1934g: 189; Smith, 1937: 872; Kempf, 1972b: 148; Smith, 1979: 1424; Deyrup et al., 1989: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 276; Deyrup et al., 2000: 301; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Deyrup, 2017: 211; Lubertazzi, 2019: 134.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmelachista ambigua ramulorum

Citations

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