• [Misspelled as munczshurica by Santschi, 1928b: 39. Misspelled as mandzshurica by Pisarski, 1969b: 304. Misspelled as mandzurica by Collingwood, 1976: 307.]
• Wheeler, 1929g: 8 (q.)
• Subspecies of Plagiolepis pygmaea: Emery, 1921d: 314 (footnote); Emery, 1925d: 21; Kiseleva, 1925: 74.
• Junior synonym of Plagiolepis taurica: Radchenko, 1996d: 185; Borowiec, L. 2014: 147. [Note: Radchenko, and Borowiec, give Plagiolepis taurica as senior name, but Plagiolepis manczshurica has priority. However, given the confusion surrounding the status of these names, both are retained as species here.]
• Status as species: Santschi, 1925f: 95; Santschi, 1928b: 39; Wheeler, W.M. 1929f: 8; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 214; Pisarski, 1969a: 230; Pisarski, 1969b: 304; Collingwood, 1976: 307; Collingwood, 1981: 29; Pisarski & Krzysztofiak, 1981: 158; Bolton, 1995b: 335; Wu, J. & Wang, 1995: 132; Radchenko, 2005b: 174

Obsolete combinations

• Plagiolepis pygmaea manczshurica

Citations

• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Pisarski, B. 1969b. 175. Myrmicidae und Formicidae. Ergebnisse der zoologischen Forschungen von Dr. Z. Kaszab in der Mongolei (Hymenoptera). Faunistische Abhandlungen (Dresden) 2(29):295-316.
• Radchenko, A. 2005b. Monographic revision of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of North Korea. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 55:127-221. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1996d. Ants of the genus Plagiolepis Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of central and southern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 75:178-187.
• Ruzsky, M. 1905b. The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.]. Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
• Santschi, F. 1925f. Contribution à la faune myrmécologique de la Chine. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56:81-96. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929g. Some ants from China and Manchuria. American Museum Novitates 361:1-11. PDF