• Combination in Platythyrea: Emery, 1897: 556.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1975: 47.
• Combination in Ectomomyrmex: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 193.
• Junior synonym of Platythyrea parallela: Wilson, 1958g: 151
• Status as species: Smith, 1871a: 324; Dalla Torre, 1893: 34; Emery, 1897: 556; Forel, 1901c: 10; Dahl, 1901: 18; Emery, 1911e: 29; Viehmeyer, 1914c: 515; Forel, 1915a: 23; Mann, 1919: 281; Karavaiev, 1925a: 75; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 472; Wheeler, 1935g: 9; Donisthorpe, 1947c: 579; Donisthorpe, 1948d: 590; Donisthorpe, 1948g: 132; Donisthorpe, 1950a: 338; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 48; Brown, 1975: 47; Bolton, 1995b: 307; Sarnat et al., 2013: 73.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla melancholica
• Platythyrea melancholica

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