• Teranishi, 1940: 6 (m.)
• Combination in Ectomomyrmex: Santschi, 1925f: 82
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1906h: 304; Emery, 1909d: 363; Yano, 1910a: 418; Emery, 1911e: 79; Santschi, 1925f: 82; Wheeler, 1928c: 5; Wheeler, 1928d: 98; Wheeler, 1929g: 1; Wheeler, 1930k: 59; Teranishi, 1940: 6, 53; Eidmann, 1941a: 12; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 61.
• Junior synonym of Ectomomyrmex javanus: Yasumatsu, 1962: 94; Onoyama, 1980a: 196; Bolton, 1995b: 306; Imai et al., 2003: 212.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla japonica

Citations

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