• Status as species: Forel, 1901c: 5; Dahl, 1901: 18; Emery, 1911e: 33; Wheeler, 1935g: 9; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 26; Brown, 1951: 102; Brown, 1953c: 12; Wilson, 1958c: 148; Brown, 1960a: 177, 220; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Shattuck, 2008b: 27 (redescription); Sarnat et al., 2013: 69.
• [Note: in Brown, 1953c: 12, and Wilson, 1958c: 144, Prionopelta majuscula is the oldest junior synonym of Prionopelta simillima Smith, 1860b; hence first available replacement name.]
• Junior synonym of Prionopelta nominata: new synonymy (unpublished).
• [Note: see discussion under Prionopelta nominata.]

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