Temnothorax nigricans (Baroni Urbani, 1978) valid

• Replacement name for Temnothorax melanocephala Wheeler, 1931b. [Junior secondary homonym of Temnothorax melanocephalus Emery, 1870.]
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271
• Status as species: Brandão, 1991: 353; Bolton, 1995b: 241; Bolton, 2003: 271; Prebus, 2021b: 58 (in key), 210 (diagnosis, redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax nigricans

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1978b. Materiali per una revisione dei Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 3:395-618. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Prebus, M. M. 2021b. Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax. PeerJ 9:462 pp. e11514. 10.7717/peerj.11514 PDF