• Combination in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 229.
• Combination in Holcoponera Mayr, 1887: Emery, 1911e: 40; Camacho et al., 2022: 11.
• Status as species: Forel, 1899b: 7; Emery, 1911e: 40; Luederwaldt, 1918: 34; Borgmeier, 1923: 55; Santschi, 1929h: 459 (redescription); Menozzi, 1931b: 261; Brown, 1956d: 490; Brown, 1958g: 229.
• Junior synonym of Holcoponera strigata: Kempf & Brown, 1968: 90; Kempf, 1972b: 115; Bolton, 1995b: 210; Lattke, 1995: 187; Camacho et al., 2022: 11.

Obsolete combinations

• Ectatomma simplex
• Gnamptogenys simplex

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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• Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
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