• Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 124.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 75; von Jhering, 1894: 393; Forel, 1895b: 130; Emery, 1896g: 84 (in key); Wheeler, 1916c: 3; Emery, 1922c: 199; Santschi, 1923c: 254; Borgmeier, 1927c: 103; Ettershank, 1966: 140; Kempf, 1972b: 234; Bolton, 1995b: 386; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 123 (redescription); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 816.
• Senior synonym of Solenopsis medioclara: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 123.
• Senior synonym of Solenopsis brevicornis petropolitana: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 123.

Junior synonyms

• Solenopsis brevicornis petropolitana Borgmeier, 1928
• Solenopsis medioclara Santschi, 1923
  Obsolete combination(s): Solenopsis brevicornis medioclara

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1888c ("1887"). Formiche della provincia di Rio Grande do Sûl nel Brasile, raccolte dal dott. Hermann von Ihering. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 19:352-366. PDF
• Emery, C. 1896g. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. XVII-XXV. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 28:33-107. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fernández, F.; Serna, F. J. 2019. Subfamilia Myrmicinae. Capítulo 27. Pp. 791-888 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
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• Pacheco, J. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 501 pp. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1923c. Solenopsis et autres fourmis néotropicales. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30:245-273. PDF
• von Jhering, H. 1894. Die ameisen von Rio Grande do Sul. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39:321-447. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1916c. Ants collected in British Guiana by the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during 1911. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35:1-14. PDF