• LaPolla et al., 2011: 19 (q.m.).
• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 218.
• Combination in Nylanderia: LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 941; Emery, 1925d: 218; LaPolla et al., 2011: 18 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 314.
• Senior synonym of Nylanderia grisoni fuscula: LaPolla et al., 2011: 18.
• Senior synonym of Nylanderia grisoni: LaPolla et al., 2011: 18.

Junior synonyms

• Nylanderia grisoni (Forel, 1916)
  Obsolete combination(s): Prenolepis grisoni, Paratrechina grisoni
• Nylanderia grisoni fuscula (Menozzi, 1942)
  Obsolete combination(s): Paratrechina grisoni fuscula

Obsolete combinations

• Prenolepis lepida

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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
• LaPolla, J. S.; Hawkes, P. G.; Fisher, B. L. 2011. Monograph of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the World, Part I: Nylanderia in the Afrotropics. Zootaxa 3110:10-36. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1915c. Nouvelles fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 84:244-282. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.