• Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 300.
• Subspecies of Solenopsis metanotalis: Creighton, 1930b: 127; Santschi, 1931f: 277; Kempf, 1972b: 238; Bolton, 1995b: 391.
• Status as species: Bruch, 1915: 532; Emery, 1922c: 201; Ettershank, 1966: 143; Wild, 2007b: 54; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 299 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Solenopsis steigeri: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 299.

Junior synonyms

• Solenopsis steigeri Santschi, 1916
  Obsolete combination(s): Solenopsis shiptoni steigeri

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bruch, C. 1915. Suplemento al catálogo de los formícidos argentinos. I. (Addenda et corrigenda). Revista del Museo de La Plata 19:527-537. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1930b. The New World species of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenop. Formicidae). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 66:39-151. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Forel, A. 1914d. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50:211-288. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Pacheco, J. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 501 pp. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1931f. Contribution à l'étude des fourmis de l'Argentine. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 112:273-282. PDF
• Wild, A. L. 2007b. A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1622:1-55. PDF