• Forel, 1903a: 689 (w.q.); Borgmeier, 1937a: 129 (em.); Kugler, 1984: 7 (m.em.)
• Combination in Cardiocondyla: Forel, 1892h: 461; Forel, 1892j: 313
• Status as species: Forel, 1892h: 461; Forel, 1892j: 313; Dalla Torre, 1893: 71; Emery, 1900: 680; Forel, 1901c: 12; Dahl, 1901: 20; Forel, 1903a: 689; Bingham, 1903: 287; Emery, 1922c: 126; Crawley, 1924a: 394; Wheeler, 1927h: 87; Wheeler, 1929h: 43; Borgmeier, 1937a: 129; Creighton, 1950a: 199; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 84; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 56; Smith, 1979: 1376; Onoyama, 1980a: 198; Bolton, 1982: 317 (redescription); Kugler, 1984: 7; Collingwood, 1985: 257; Taylor, 1987a: 16; Kugler, 1988: 258; Deyrup et al., 1989: 95; Brandão, 1991: 336; Ogata, 1991b: 99; Morisita et al., 1992: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 133; MacKay, 1995: 171 (in key); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 68; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 327; Deyrup et al., 2000: 297; Mohamed et al., 2001: 50; Zhou, 2001a: 86; Rigato, 2002: 172 (in key); Deyrup, 2003: 44; Imai et al., 2003: 153; Lin & Wu, 2003: 63; Seifert, 2003a: 269 (redescription); Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 16; Zhou, 2006: 583; Framenau & Thomas, 2008: 67; Terayama, 2009: 179; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 41; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 44; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 41; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 208; Borowiec, 2014: 49; Ramage, 2014: 172; Bharti et al., 2016: 34; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 34; Deyrup, 2017: 57; Dekoninck et al., 2019: 1153; Fernández & Serna, 2019: 820; Rasheed et al., 2019: 431; Dias et al., 2020: 63; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 80; Wang et al., 2022: 70; Sharaf et al., 2022: 44.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla wroughtonii bimaculata: Smith, 1979: 1376; Bolton, 1995b: 133; Mohamed et al., 2001: 50; Zhou, 2001a: 86; Seifert, 2003a: 269; Terayama, 2009: 179.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla emeryi chlorotica: Bolton, 1982: 317; Bolton, 1995b: 133; Zhou, 2001a: 86.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla wroughtonii hawaiensis: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 56; Smith, 1979: 1376; Bolton, 1982: 317; Kugler, 1984: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 133; Mohamed et al., 2001: 50; Zhou, 2001a: 86; Seifert, 2003a: 269.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla longispina: Seifert, 2003a: 269.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla wroughtonii quadraticeps: Seifert, 2003a: 269.
• Senior synonym of Cardiocondyla yamauchii: Seifert, 2003a: 269.

Junior synonyms

• Cardiocondyla emeryi chlorotica Menozzi, 1930
• Cardiocondyla longispina Karavaiev, 1935
• Cardiocondyla wroughtonii bimaculata Wheeler, 1929
• Cardiocondyla wroughtonii hawaiensis Forel, 1899
• Cardiocondyla wroughtonii quadraticeps Forel, 1912
• Cardiocondyla yamauchii Terayama, 1999

Obsolete combinations

• Emeryia wroughtonii

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