• [Misspelled as endicum by Santschi, 1924c: 112.]
• Viehmeyer, 1916a: 142 (q.m.); Imai et al., 1984: 8 (k.)
• Combination in Tapinoma (Micromyrma): Santschi, 1928e: 473.
• Subspecies of Tapinoma melanocephalum: Forel, 1909i: 228.
• Status as species: Forel, 1901c: 17; Dahl, 1901: 12; Bingham, 1903: 304; Forel, 1905f: 22; Forel, 1909k: 395; Forel, 1912a: 71; Forel, 1913f: 663; Forel, 1913l: 93; Emery, 1913a: 41; Forel, 1915a: 34; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 142; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Santschi, 1920h: 172; Santschi, 1924c: 112; Karavaiev, 1926d: 441; Wheeler, 1929h: 62; Wheeler, 1930k: 73; Wheeler, 1935g: 36; Teranishi, 1940: 37, 59, 78; Eidmann, 1941a: 22; Azuma, 1951: 88; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 193; Azuma, 1977a: 116; Onoyama, 1980a: 199; Shattuck, 1994: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 400; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 342; Zhou, 2001a: 151; Lin & Wu, 2003: 60; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 34; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 26; Bharti et al., 2016: 19; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 22; Dias et al., 2020: 19; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 17; Wang et al., 2022: 27; Seifert, 2025b: 249.

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