• Lectotype designation: Prebus, 2021b: 123.
• [Junior primary homonym of †Temnothorax petiolatus Mayr, 1868c.]
• Wheeler, 1931b: 13 (q.)
• Combination in Macromischa: Emery, 1924f: 247.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 247; Wheeler, 1931b: 13; Wheeler, 1942: 205.
• Replacement name: Temnothorax foreli Aguayo, 1931

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax petiolatus

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
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1901d. I. Fourmis mexicaines récoltées par M. le professeur W.-M. Wheeler. II. A propos de la classification des fourmis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:123-141. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1931b. New and little-known ants of the genera Macromischa, Creosomyrmex and Antillaemyrmex. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72:1-34. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF