• Lectotype designation: Trager, 1984b: 141.
• Wheeler, 1905j: 392 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986d: 336 (l.)
• Combination in Prenolepis (Nylanderia): Forel, 1912j: 66.
• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 223.
• Combination in Paratrechina: Trager, 1984b: 139.
• Combination in Nylanderia: Wheeler, 1935g: 50; LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• Subspecies of Nylanderia vividula: Dalla Torre, 1893: 180; Forel, 1912j: 66; Wheeler & Mann, 1914: 44; Wheeler, 1919e: 305; Wheeler, 1922e: 15; Wheeler, 1924b: 111; Emery, 1925d: 223; Borgmeier, 1927c: 164; Wheeler, 1933a: 60; Wheeler, 1935g: 50; Creighton, 1950a: 410; Smith, 1951c: 849; Smith, 1979: 1444.
• Status as species: Emery, 1893k: 637; Forel, 1893j: 340; Forel, 1899b: 126; Forel, 1902b: 178; Wheeler, 1906i: 342; Wheeler, 1907b: 276; Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Cole, 1937b: 137; Smith, 1954c: 14; Brown, 1957e: 237; Kempf, 1972b: 167; Trager, 1984b: 139 (redescription); Deyrup et al., 1989: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 313; Deyrup et al., 2000: 301; Deyrup, 2003: 46; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 256; Kallal & LaPolla, 2012: 7 (in key); Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019: 737; Lubertazzi, 2019: 135; LaPolla & Kallal, 2019: 408 (in key).
• Senior synonym of Nylanderia vividula antillana: Kallal & LaPolla, 2012: 41 (in text).

Junior synonyms

• Nylanderia vividula antillana (Forel, 1893)
  Obsolete combination(s): Prenolepis guatemalensis antillana

Obsolete combinations

• Nylanderia vividula guatemalensis
• Prenolepis guatemalensis
• Prenolepis vividula guatemalensis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
• Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1957e. Biological investigations in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas. 4. Ants from Laguna Ocotal (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 116:228-237. PDF
• Cole, A. C., Jr. 1937b. An annotated list of the ants of Arizona (Hym.: Formicidae). [concl.]. Entomological News 48:134-140. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Deyrup, M. 2003. An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 86:43-48. PDF
• Deyrup, M.; Davis, L.; Cover, S. 2000. Exotic ants in Florida. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 126:293-326.
• Deyrup, M.; Johnson, C.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989. A preliminary list of the ants of Florida. Florida Entomologist 72:91-101. PDF
• Emery, C. 1893k. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 7:633-682. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Fernández, F.; Ortiz-Sepúlveda, C. M. 2019. Subfamilia Formicinae. Capítulo 25. Pp. 721-741 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1885a ("1884"). Études myrmécologiques en 1884 avec une description des organes sensoriels des antennes. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 20:316-380. PDF
• Forel, A. 1893j. Formicides de l'Antille St. Vincent, récoltées par Mons. H. H. Smith. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1893:333-418. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902b. Quatre notices myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46:170-182. PDF
• Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:59-92. PDF
• Kallal, R. J.; LaPolla, J. S. 2012. Monograph of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the World, Part II: Nylanderia in the Nearctic. Zootaxa 3508:1-64. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• LaPolla, J. S.; Brady, S. G.; Shattuck, S. O. 2010a. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Prenolepis genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 35:118-131. PDF
• LaPolla, J. S.; Kallal, R. J. 2019. Nylanderia of the World Part III: Nylanderia in the West Indies. Zootaxa 4658 (3):401-451. 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.1 PDF
• Lubertazzi, D. 2019. The ants of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162 (2):59-210. 10.3099/MCZ-43.1 PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1954c. Ants of the Bimini Island Group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1671:1-16. PDF
• Trager, J. C. 1984b. A revision of the genus Paratrechina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the continental United States. Sociobiology 9:49-162. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986d. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 94:331-341. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1905j. An annotated list of the ants of New Jersey. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:371-403. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1906i. The ants of the Grand Cañon. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22:329-345. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1907b. A collection of ants from British Honduras. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:271-277. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919e. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906. XV. The ants of Cocos Island. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)2(2):299-308.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922e. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45:1-16. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1924b. The Formicidae of the Harrison Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica (New York) 5:101-122. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1933a. The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932. No. 6. Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)21:57-64.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
• Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1914. The ants of Haiti. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33:1-61. PDF