• [Replacement name for Goniothorax Emery, 1896g; junior homonym of Goniothorax Milne-Edwards, 1879: 103 (Crustacea): Smith, 1950a: 30; Bolton, 2003: 249.]
• [Note: Nesomyrmex Wheeler, 1910d is the oldest junior synonym of Goniothorax Emery, 1896g (a junior homonym) and hence is the first available replacement name (Smith, 1950a: 30; Bolton, 1995b: 30; Bolton, 2003: 249, 272).]
• Nesomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Forel, 1917: 244; subsequent authors.
• Nesomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 2003: 70, 249.
• Nesomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Nesomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini, Cataulacus genus group: Blaimer et al., 2018: 7.
• Nesomyrmex as subgenus of Leptothorax: Emery, 1915e: 24; Forel, 1917: 244; Wheeler, 1922: 679; Smith, 1950a: 30; Smith, 1951c: 816; Kempf, 1959d: 393; Brown, 1971a: 4; Kempf, 1972b: 133; Smith, 1979: 1391; Brandão, 1991: 350; Mackay, 2000: 272 (in key).
• Nesomyrmex as junior synonym of Goniothorax Emery, 1896g: Emery, 1924f: 249; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 674.
• Nesomyrmex as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Bolton, 1982: 319; Ogata, 1991b: 94; Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 39.
• Nesomyrmex as genus: Wheeler, 1910d: 259; Francoeur & Loiselle, 1988b: 43 (provisional); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Jaffe, 1993: 11; Bolton, 2003: 70, 249, 272.
• Nesomyrmex as senior synonym of Caulomyrma: Forel, 1915c: 364 [provisional]; Emery, 1915e: 24; Wheeler, 1922: 679; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 631; Bolton, 2003: 249, 272.
• Nesomyrmex as senior synonym of Ireneopone: Bolton, 2003: 250, 272.
• Nesomyrmex as senior synonym of Limnomyrmex: Brown, 1971a: 4; Bolton, 2003: 250, 272.
• Nesomyrmex as senior synonym of Meia: Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 2003: 250, 272.
• Nesomyrmex as senior synonym of Tetramyrma: Bolton, 2003: 249, 272.

Junior synonyms

• Caulomyrma Forel, 1914
  Obsolete classification(s): Leptothorax (Caulomyrma)
• Ireneopone Donisthorpe, 1946
• Limnomyrmex Arnold, 1948
• Meia Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990
• Tetramyrma Forel, 1912

Obsolete classifications

• Leptothorax (Nesomyrmex)

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