• Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 47 (w.)
• Subspecies of Tapinoma simrothi: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927d: 36; Menozzi, 1936b: 295; Shattuck, 1994: 154; Bolton, 1995b: 400.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1993b: 195; Lush, 2009: 114; Legakis, 2011: 23; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 538; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 4; Borowiec, 2014: 167; Lebas et al., 2016: 116; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 48; Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 47; Seifert et al., 2024: 56.
• [Note: Tapinoma festae is also recorded as a junior synonym of Tapinoma simrothi by Borowiec, 2014: 169.]

Obsolete combinations

• Tapinoma simrothi festae

Citations

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