• [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Tetramorium binodis (Linnaeus, 1763) (Bolton, 1995b: 252).]
• [Note: Fabricius, 1775: 393, refers to this as Forskål material. It may therefore be the same as Formica binodis Forskål, 1775.]
• Combination in Atta: Latreille, 1809: 130.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster: Roger, 1863b: 29.
• Status as species: Forskål, 1775: xxiii; Fabricius, 1782: 491; Fabricius, 1787: 309; Gmelin, 1790: 2798; Christ, 1791: 506; Olivier, 1792: 496; Fabricius, 1793: 357; Latreille, 1802a: 285; Fabricius, 1804: 405.
• Subspecies of Messor barbarus: Emery & Forel, 1879: 461.
• Junior synonym of Messor barbarus: Smith, 1858a: 162; Mayr, 1861: 66 (in key); Smith, 1861a: 35; Mayr, 1863a: 395; Roger, 1863b: 29; André, 1874c: 203 (in list); Emery, 1891c: 12; Dalla Torre, 1893: 99; Ruzsky, 1905b: 741; Emery, 1921c: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 252.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica binodis

Citations

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