• Combination in Monomorium (Xeromyrmex): Emery, 1922c: 177
• Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 688; Bingham, 1903: 203; Emery, 1922c: 177; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 166; Ettershank, 1966: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 303; Bharti et al., 2016: 39; Rasheed et al., 2019: 432.

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