• [First available use of Aphaenogaster testaceopilosa semipolita ionia Emery, 1915a; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• [Misspelled as jonia by Emery, 1921c: 63.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1916a: 131; Emery, 1921c: 63; Soudek, 1925b: 14; Kutter, 1927a: 98; Finzi, 1930d: 312
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster semipolita: Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 43
• Status as species: Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 423; Bolton, 1995b: 70; Poldi et al., 1995: 3; Bračko, 2006: 135; Bračko, 2007: 17; Lush, 2009: 114; Legakis, 2011: 7; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 465; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 16.
• Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster balcanica: Boer, 2013: 65

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster semipolita ionia

Citations

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