• Lectotype designation: Trager, 1984b: 98.
• Forel, 1900h: 270 (m.)
• Combination in Prenolepis: Mayr, 1886c: 362.
• Combination in Prenolepis (Nylanderia): Emery, 1910a: 132.
• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 220.
• Combination in Nylanderia: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 215; LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 178; Forel, 1900h: 269, 285; Wheeler, 1906h: 320 (redescription); Yano, 1910a: 421; Emery, 1910a: 132; Forel, 1912m: 339; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 345; Emery, 1925d: 220; Santschi, 1925f: 88; Stärcke, 1926a: 121 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1927c: 398; Santschi, 1928h: 132; Wheeler, 1928d: 119; Wheeler, 1929g: 10; Wheeler, 1930k: 79; Kôno & Sugihara, 1939: 11; Santschi, 1937h: 386; Teranishi, 1940: 20; Morisita, 1945: 22; Azuma, 1950a: 35; Azuma, 1951: 88; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 215, 219 (combinations in Nylanderia, Prenolepis, respectively); Azuma, 1953: 4; Azuma, 1955: 79; Collingwood, 1976a: 306; Azuma, 1977a: 117; Onoyama, 1980a: 199; Collingwood, 1981: 29; Trager, 1984b: 97 (redescription); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 233; Morisita et al., 1991: 21; Wu & Wang, 1992c: 1313; Bolton, 1995b: 313; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 152; Tang et al., 1995: 99; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 369; Collingwood et al., 1997: 510; Terayama, 1999c: 51 (in key); Zhou, 2001a: 181; Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 219; Imai et al., 2003: 81; Lin & Wu, 2003: 62; Coovert, 2005: 115; Radchenko, 2005b: 172; Zhou, 2006: 586; Paknia et al., 2008: 155; Collingwood et al., 2011: 467; Wetterer, 2011c: 582; Ellison et al., 2012: 209; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 34; Kallal & LaPolla, 2012: 7 (in key); Borowiec, 2014: 138; Silva et al., 2023: 519.

Obsolete combinations

• Paratrechina flavipes
• Tapinoma flavipes

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