• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c: 58
• Status as species: Forel, 1899b: 59; Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Wheeler, 1915b: 412; Wheeler, 1917a: 516; Emery, 1921c: 58; Creighton, 1950a: 146; Smith, 1951c: 796; Smith, 1979: 1361; Bolton, 1995b: 71; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 330 (redescription).

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