• [First available use of Prenolepis ellisii madagascariensis rufescens Forel, 1907i; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 219.
• Combination in Nylanderia: LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925d: 219.
• Subspecies of Nylanderia madagascarensis: Bolton, 1995b: 315.

Obsolete combinations

• Prenolepis madagascarensis rufescens

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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.