• Wheeler, 1905g: 311 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 175 (l.)
• Combination in Dolichoderus: Mayr, 1886d: 436.
• Combination in Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea): Emery, 1894d: 229.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1886d: 436 (in key); Cresson, 1887: 258; Dalla Torre, 1893: 160; Emery, 1895d: 330; Wheeler, 1905g: 310 (redescription); Wheeler, 1905j: 388; Wheeler, 1906g: 10; Wheeler, 1910a: 568; Emery, 1913a: 11; Wheeler, 1916r: 590; Wheeler, 1932a: 12; Wing, 1939: 163; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 99; Creighton, 1950a: 335; Smith, 1951c: 834; Smith, 1958c: 139; Francoeur & Béique, 1966a: 142; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1966: 727; Smith, 1967a: 364; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Smith, 1979: 1416; Johnson, 1989a: 3 (redescription); Deyrup et al., 1989: 99; MacKay, 1993b: 81 (redescription); Shattuck, 1994: 61; Wheeler et al., 1994: 304; Bolton, 1995b: 175; Coovert, 2005: 103; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 64; Ortega-De Santiago & Vásquez-Bolaños, 2012: 1008 (in key); Ellison et al., 2012: 100; Dubovikoff & Coronado-Blanco, 2018: 1329.
• Senior synonym of Dolichoderus borealis: Emery, 1895d: 330; Wheeler, 1905g: 310; Ruzsky, 1905b: 472; Emery, 1913a: 11; Creighton, 1950a: 335; Smith, 1951c: 834; Francoeur & Béique, 1966a: 142; Smith, 1979: 1416; MacKay, 1993b: 82; Shattuck, 1994: 61; Bolton, 1995b: 175.
• Senior synonym of Dolichoderus plagiatus inornatus: Creighton, 1950a: 335; Smith, 1958c: 139; Smith, 1979: 1416; MacKay, 1993b: 82; Shattuck, 1994: 61; Bolton, 1995b: 175.

Junior synonyms

• Dolichoderus borealis Provancher, 1888
• Dolichoderus plagiatus inornatus Wheeler, 1905

Obsolete combinations

• Hypoclinea plagiata

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