• Lectotype designation: Fernández, 2003h: 659.
• Fernández, 2003h: 658 (q.m.)
• Combination in Tranopelta: Emery, 1919b: 61.
• Junior synonym of Crematogaster huberi: Emery, 1919b: 61.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922g: 10; Emery, 1922c: 193; Borgmeier, 1927c: 101; Ettershank, 1966: 109; Kempf, 1972b: 255; Bolton, 1995b: 421; Fernández, 2003h: 656 (redescription); Guénard & Economo, 2015: 228; Guerrero et al., 2018: 256; Fernández & Serna, 2019: 879.

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium subterraneum

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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