• [Also described as new by Emery, 1893h: 242.]
• Wilson et al., 1956: 85 (q.m.l.)
• Status as species: Emery, 1893h: 242; Forel, 1895f: 462; Bingham, 1903: 291; Emery, 1913a: 7; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 181; Wilson et al., 1956: 82 (redescription); Gotwald, 1970: 950; Jayasuriya & Traniello, 1986: 363; Traniello & Jayasuriya, 1986: 375; Shattuck, 1994: 1; Bolton, 1995b: 63; Billen, 2017: 1; Dias et al., 2020: 16.
• Senior synonym of Aneuretus butteli: Wilson et al., 1956: 81 (footnote); Shattuck, 1994: 1; Bolton, 1995b: 63.

Junior synonyms

• Aneuretus butteli Forel, 1912

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
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