• Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 401 (q.)
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster boulderensis: Smith, 1951c: 796; Smith, 1979: 1360; Bolton, 1995b: 73; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 73.
• Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster boulderensis: Snelling & George, 1979: 70; Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 11.
• Status as species: Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 400 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster boulderensis smithi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Gregg, R. E. 1949b. A new ant from southwestern United States (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 51:171-174. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
• Shattuck, S. O.; Cover, S. 2016. Taxonomy of some little-understood North American ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4175:10-22. 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.2 PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Snelling, R. R.; George, C. D. 1979. The taxonomy, distribution and ecology of California desert ants. Report to California Desert Plan Program, Bureau of Land Management. Riverside: U.S. Dept. Interior, 335 + 89 pp.