• Combination in Stenamma (Messor): Emery, 1895d: 308.
• Combination in Messor: Wheeler, 1910a: 565.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster: Wheeler, 1917a: 516; Bolton, 1995b: 68.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 59.
• Combination in Novomessor: Enzmann, 1947b: 151 (in key) (error).
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster patruelis: Forel, 1899b: 58; Wheeler, 1917a: 516; Emery, 1921c: 59; Wheeler, 1934f: 133; Bolton, 1995b: 68.
• Status as species: Emery, 1895d: 308; Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 228 (redescription)

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster patruelis carbonaria

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1895d. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna. (Schluss). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:257-360. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Enzmann, J. 1947b. New forms of Aphaenogaster and Novomessor. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 55:147-152. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
• Pergande, T. 1894. Formicidae of Lower California, Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (2)4:161-165. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1934f. Ants from the islands off the west coast of Lower California and Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 10:132-144. PDF