• Lectotype designation: Trager, 1984b: 129.
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 211 (l.)
• Combination in Prenolepis (Nylanderia): Emery, 1914f: 422.
• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 222.
• Combination in Nylanderia: LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Emery, 1925d: 222; Creighton, 1950a: 406; Smith, 1951c: 848; Smith, 1958c: 146; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1443; Trager, 1984b: 129 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 312; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 404; Kallal & LaPolla, 2012: 15 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Paratrechina bruesii
• Prenolepis bruesii

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
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• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
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