• Lectotype designation: Seifert, 2012b: 98.
• Emery, 1925c: 11 (m.); Karavaiev, 1927e: 341 (q.); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 35 (q.m.)
• Subspecies of Bothriomyrmex meridionalis: Karavaiev, 1927a: 293.
• Status as species: Emery, 1925c: 10; Karavaiev, 1927e: 340 (redescription); Dlussky, 1962: 180; Aktaç, 1977: 124; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 548 (in key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 195; Shattuck, 1994: 32; Arakelian, 1994: 75; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 130; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 33; Seifert, 2012b: 98 (redescription); Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 469; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 4; Borowiec, 2014: 22 (see note in bibliography); Bračko et al., 2014: 17; Lebas et al., 2016: 108; Radchenko, 2016: 99; Steiner et al., 2017: 7; Borowiec & Salata, 2018a: 4; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 43; Seifert, 2018: 247; Werner et al., 2018: 6; Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 33 (redescription); Bračko, 2023: 134; Sert & Karaman, 2024: 393.
• Senior synonym of Bothriomyrmex adriacus: Seifert, 2012b: 98; Radchenko, 2016: 99.
• Senior synonym of Bothriomyrmex adriacus ionius: Seifert, 2012b: 98 (by implication); Radchenko, 2016: 99
• Senior synonym of Bothriomyrmex jannonei: Borowiec et al., 2021: 13.
• Senior synonym of Bothriomyrmex corsicus mohelensis: Seifert, 2012b: 98; Radchenko, 2016: 99; Werner et al., 2018: 6.

Junior synonyms

• Bothriomyrmex adriacus Santschi, 1922
  Obsolete combination(s): Bothriomyrmex meridionalis adriaca
• Bothriomyrmex adriacus ionius Emery, 1925
• Bothriomyrmex corsicus mohelensis Novák, 1941
• Bothriomyrmex jannonei Menozzi, 1936

Obsolete combinations

• Bothriomyrmex meridionalis communista

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