• Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 350 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953b: 70 (l.)
• Combination in Stenamma (Aphaenogaster): Emery, 1895d: 306.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Ischnomyrmex): Wheeler, 1910a: 565.
• Combination in Novomessor (Novomessor): Emery, 1921c: 67.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster: Brown, 1974b: 47.
• Combination in Novomessor: Emery, 1915k: 73; Demarco & Cognato, 2015: 8.
• Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 260; Emery, 1895d: 306; Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Emery, 1915k: 73; Emery, 1921c: 66; Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 349; Cole, 1937a: 101; Enzmann, 1947b: 151 (in key); Brown, 1949a: 49; Creighton, 1950a: 155; Smith, 1951c: 799; Smith, 1958c: 119; Smith, 1967a: 352; Brown, 1974b: 47; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Hölldobler et al., 1976: 32; Hölldobler et al., 1978: 163; Smith, 1979: 1360; Bolton, 1982: 340; Bolton, 1995b: 68; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 72; Demarco & Cognato, 2015: 8; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 445 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Novomessor cockerelli minor: Brown, 1949a: 49; Creighton, 1950a: 156; Smith, 1951c: 799; Smith, 1979: 1360; Bolton, 1995b: 68; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 445.

Junior synonyms

• Novomessor cockerelli minor Enzmann, 1947
  Obsolete combination(s): Aphaenogaster cockerelli minor

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster albisetosa

Citations

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