• [Duplicated in Jerdon, 1854b: 108.]
• [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Formica nana Latreille, 1802a (Emery, 1921a: 26; Bolton, 1995b: 401).]
• [Junior primary homonym of Formica nana Latreille, 1802a (Seifert, 2022: 39).]
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 15; Mayr, 1863a: 418; Smith, 1871a: 303.
• Junior synonym of Tapinoma melanocephalum: Emery, 1892c: 166; Dalla Torre, 1893: 165; Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1895f: 472; Pergande, 1896: 870; Forel, 1899b: 101; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Emery, 1913a: 41; Wheeler, 1919d: 275; Wheeler, 1919f: 100; Wheeler, 1922: 925; Borgmeier, 1923: 101; Creighton, 1950a: 352; Smith, 1954c: 10; Smith, 1979: 1421; Shattuck, 1994: 148; Bolton, 1995b: 401; Tiwari, 1999: 83; Zhou, 2001a: 150; Radchenko, 2016: 92; Guerrero, 2018: 499.
• Replacement name: Tapinoma jerdoni Seifert, 2022.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica nana

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