• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 223.
• Combination in Paratrechina: Brandão, 1991: 367.
• Combination in Nylanderia: Kempf, 1972b: 167; LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1919e: 305; Emery, 1925d: 223; Wheeler, 1935g: 50.
• Subspecies of Nylanderia guatemalensis: Kempf, 1972b: 167; Bolton, 1995b: 313.

Obsolete combinations

• Prenolepis guatemalensis cocoensis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902b. Quatre notices myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46:170-182. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• LaPolla, J. S.; Brady, S. G.; Shattuck, S. O. 2010a. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Prenolepis genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 35:118-131. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919e. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906. XV. The ants of Cocos Island. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)2(2):299-308.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.