• [Holcomyrmex Smith, 1873: ix. Nomen nudum, attributed to Mayr.]
• Holcomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 65 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e: 185 [Myrmicinae].
• Holcomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Holcomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1922c: 181 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 650.
• Holcomyrmex as genus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 65; Forel, 1903a: 692; Bingham, 1903: 280; Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Holcomyrmex as subgenus of Monomorium: Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Emery, 1915g: 190; Forel, 1917: 242; Emery, 1922c: 181; Wheeler, 1922: 676; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 650.
• Holcomyrmex as junior synonym of Monomorium: Emery, 1908j: 667; Ettershank, 1966: 82; Bolton, 1973a: 352; Smith, 1979: 1381; Bolton, 1987: 287, 295; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Ogata, 1991b: 104; Bolton, 1995b: 31; Tang et al., 1995: 68; Bolton, 2003: 211.
• Holcomyrmex as junior synonym of Trichomyrmex: Ward et al., 2015: 76.

Obsolete classifications

• Monomorium (Holcomyrmex)

Citations

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