• Lectotype designation: DuBois, 1986: 84.
• DuBois, 1986: 84 (m.)
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1922c: 173.
• Subspecies of Monomorium minimum: Wheeler, 1917a: 501; Ettershank, 1966: 88; Kempf, 1972b: 144.
• Status as species: DuBois, 1981b: 35; DuBois, 1986: 82 (redescription); MacKay et al., 1988: 91; Brandão, 1991: 357; Bolton, 1995b: 260; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 145; Fernández, 2007b: 132.
• Senior synonym of Monomorium minimum emersoni: DuBois, 1986: 82; Bolton, 1995b: 260.

Junior synonyms

• Monomorium minimum emersoni Gregg, 1945

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium minimum cyaneum

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• DuBois, M. B. 1981b. Two new species of inquilinous Monomorium from North America (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 52:31-37. PDF
• DuBois, M. B. 1986. A revision of the native New World species of the ant genus Monomorium (minimum group) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 53:65-119. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2007b. Two new South American species of Monomorium Mayr with taxonomic notes on the genus. Pp. 128-145 in: Snelling, R. R.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. (eds.) 2007. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E.O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:690 pp.
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• MacKay, W. P.; Lowrie, D.; Fisher, A.; MacKay, E. E.; Barnes, F. 1988. The ants of Los Alamos County, New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pp. 79-131 in: Trager, J. C. (ed.) 1988. Advances in myrmecology. Leiden: E. J. Brill, xxvii + 551 pp. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1914c. Ants collected by W. M. Mann in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22:37-61. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. PDF