• [Tomognathus americanus Wasmann, 1894: 164. Nomen nudum (attributed to Emery).]
• Creighton, 1927: 27 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955b: 26 (l.)
• Combination in Tomognathus (Protomognathus): Wheeler, 1905a: 3.
• Combination in Harpagoxenus: Wheeler, 1910a: 494.
• Combination in Protomognathus: Cover, 1990: 65.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1901e: 715; Wheeler, 1905j: 376; Wheeler, 1910a: 567; Emery, 1924f: 266; Creighton, 1927: 26; Smith, 1939b: 166 (redecription); Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 98; Creighton, 1950a: 284; Smith, 1951c: 822; Smith, 1958c: 134; Carter, 1962a: 7 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 360; Kutter, 1968c: 204; Smith, 1979: 1398; Buschinger, 1981: 213; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 138; Wheeler et al., 1994: 302; Bolton, 1995b: 369; Coovert, 2005: 81; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 72; Fisher & Cover, 2007: 137; Ellison et al., 2012: 306.

Obsolete combinations

• Tomognathus americanus

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