• Viehmeyer, 1916a: 142 (q.m.); Menozzi, 1932d: 7 (q.)
• Combination in Philidris: Shattuck, 1992a: 18
• Status as species: Forel, 1895f: 468; Forel, 1903a: 713; Bingham, 1903: 299; Emery, 1913a: 25; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 142; Santschi, 1920h: 172; Santschi, 1924c: 112; Menozzi, 1932d: 7; Karavaiev, 1935a: 108; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 190; Shattuck, 1994: 137; Bolton, 1995b: 334; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 7; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 25; Bharti et al., 2016: 19; Wang et al., 2022: 26.

Obsolete combinations

• Iridomyrmex laevigatus

Citations

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