• Combination in Hypoclinea: Roger, 1863b: 14.
• Combination in Dolichoderus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 162.
• Combination in Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea): Emery, 1913a: 14.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 14; Mayr, 1863a: 456; Smith, 1871a: 309; Dalla Torre, 1893: 162; Emery, 1913a: 14; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 457; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 186; Shattuck, 1994: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 177; Xu, 2001b: 356 (in key); Zhou, 2001a: 154; Dill, 2002: 64; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 20; Terayama, 2009: 197; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 33; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 25; Bharti et al., 2016: 19; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 22; Dias et al., 2020: 18; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 15; Wang et al., 2022: 24.
• Senior synonym of Dolichoderus bituberculatus: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 457; Shattuck, 1994: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 177; Zhou, 2001a: 154; Dill, 2002: 64; Terayama, 2009: 197.
• Senior synonym of Dolichoderus sellaris: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 457 (by implication); Shattuck, 1994: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 177; Dill, 2002: 64.

Junior synonyms

• Dolichoderus bituberculatus (Mayr, 1862)
  Obsolete combination(s): Hypoclinea bituberculata
• Dolichoderus sellaris (Roger, 1863)
  Obsolete combination(s): Hypoclinea sellaris

Obsolete combinations

• Tapinoma thoracica

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