• Combination in Ponera: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 190.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Mayr, 1862: 721.
• Combination in Atta: Forel, 1905e: 161.
• Status as species: Latreille, 1802a: 202; Fabricius, 1804: 408; Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 190.
• [Note: Atta flavicornis Fabricius, 1798 was misinterpreted as a ponerine by Latreille, 1802a: 202, pl. 7, figs. 42B, 43. Because of this, Atta flavicornis Fabricius, 1798 incorrectly appears in combination in Ponera in Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 190; Smith, 1858a: 95; Roger, 1861a: 6; and also incorrectly in Pachycondyla in Mayr, 1862: 721; Roger, 1863b: 18; Mayr, 1863a: 439; Emery, 1890b: 58, 73 (in key); Emery, 1890c: 42; Dalla Torre, 1893: 33; Emery, 1894l: 48; Forel, 1895b: 114; Emery, 1896a: 1; Forel, 1899b: 10.]
• Junior synonym of Atta sexdens: Forel, 1905e: 161; Emery, 1924f: 354; Borgmeier, 1927c: 137; Borgmeier, 1959b: 359; Kempf, 1972b: 28; Bolton, 1995b: 76; Fernández et al., 2015: 160.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica flavicornis
• Pachycondyla flavicornis

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