• Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 175 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1960b: 2 (l.); Taber et al., 1988: 51 (k.)
• Combination in Atta: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 174.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster: Roger, 1863b: 30.
• Combination in Pogonomyrmex: Mayr, 1870b: 971.
• Status as species: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 174 (redescription); Mayr, 1863a: 395; Roger, 1863b: 30; Mayr, 1870b: 971 (in key); Mayr, 1886d: 450; Mayr, 1887: 610 (in key); Cresson, 1887: 260; André, 1893b: 152; Dalla Torre, 1893: 118; Pergande, 1893: 33; Emery, 1895d: 310; Wheeler, 1902a: 99 (in key); Wheeler, 1902d: 392 (in key); Wheeler, 1905j: 384; Wheeler, 1910a: 566; Wheeler, 1913d: 114; Emery, 1921c: 45; Smith, 1930a: 3; Wheeler, 1932a: 4; Olsen, 1934: 500; Creighton, 1950a: 115; Smith, 1951c: 792; Smith, 1958c: 114; Smith, 1967a: 351; Cole, 1968: 148 (redescription); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1971: 385; Smith, 1979: 1356; Gordon, 1984: 413; Deyrup et al., 1989: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 339; Taber, 1998: 149 (in key); Deyrup, 2003: 46; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 70; Deyrup, 2017: 96.
• Senior synonym of Pogonomyrmex brevipennis: Emery, 1895d: 310; Emery, 1921c: 45; Creighton, 1950a: 116; Smith, 1951c: 792; Cole, 1968: 148; Smith, 1979: 1356; Bolton, 1995b: 339.
• Senior synonym of Pogonomyrmex crudelis: Emery, 1895d: 310; Emery, 1921c: 45; Olsen, 1934: 500; Creighton, 1950a: 115; Smith, 1951c: 792; Cole, 1968: 148; Smith, 1979: 1356; Bolton, 1995b: 339.
• Senior synonym of Pogonomyrmex transversa: Emery, 1895d: 310; Emery, 1921c: 45; Creighton, 1950a: 115; Smith, 1951c: 792; Cole, 1968: 148; Smith, 1979: 1356; Bolton, 1995b: 339.

Junior synonyms

• Pogonomyrmex brevipennis (Smith, 1858)
  Obsolete combination(s): Myrmica brevipennis
• Pogonomyrmex crudelis (Smith, 1858)
  Obsolete combination(s): Atta crudelis
• Pogonomyrmex transversa (Smith, 1858)
  Obsolete combination(s): Myrmica transversa

Obsolete combinations

• Formica badia

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