• Junior synonym of Tapinoma sessile: Mayr, 1886d: 434; Cresson, 1887: 256; Pergande, 1893: 30; Dalla Torre, 1893: 166; Emery, 1895d: 332; Forel, 1899b: 101; Ruzsky, 1905b: 480; Emery, 1913a: 40; Creighton, 1950a: 353; Smith, 1951c: 838; Smith, 1979: 1421; Snelling & George, 1979: 160; Shattuck, 1994: 153; Bolton, 1995b: 401; Hamm, 2010: 21.
• [Note: Wheeler, 1902g: 20, says, “It (Tapinoma parva) may be merely a small form of the preceding (Tapinoma gracile Buckley, 1866). The description is utterly worthless”.]

Obsolete combinations

• Formica parva

Citations

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