• Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 97 (q.m.l.)
• Subspecies of Bothriomyrmex meridionalis: Emery, 1913a: 28; Wheeler & Mann, 1916: 172; Santschi, 1919i: 205.
• Status as species: Emery, 1925c: 11 (redescription); Menozzi, 1933b: 78; Pisarski, 1967a: 406; Pisarski, 1970a: 319; Tohmé & Tohmé, 1981: 97; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 279 (in key); Kugler, 1988: 258; Shattuck, 1994: 37; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Petrov, 2006: 103 (in key); Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 38; Karaman, 2011b: 62; Legakis, 2011: 23; Seifert, 2012b: 101; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 470; Borowiec, 2014: 24; Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 137; Borowiec & Salata, 2020: 3.

Obsolete combinations

• Bothriomyrmex meridionalis syria

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