• Wheeler, 1923c: 3 (m.)
• Combination in Monomorium (Parholcomyrmex): Emery, 1922c: 180.
• Combination in Trichomyrmex: Ward et al., 2015: 76.
• Subspecies of Trichomyrmex destructor: Forel, 1911a: 24; Forel, 1913l: 53; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 132.
• Subspecies of Trichomyrmex destructor gracillimus: Forel, 1907d: 19; Santschi, 1920h: 161; Emery, 1922c: 180; Wheeler, 1930k: 67; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 166; Ettershank, 1966: 90.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1987: 326 (redescription); Kugler, 1988: 258; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 88; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 350; Tiwari, 1999: 53; Zhou, 2001a: 112; Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 220; Collingwood et al., 2004: 481; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 43; Collingwood et al., 2011: 435; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 45; Sharaf et al., 2013: 574; Borowiec, 2014: 122; Bharti et al., 2016: 47; Sharaf et al., 2016a: 20 (redescription); Sharaf et al., 2017: 49; Sharaf et al., 2018: 32; Dias et al., 2020: 100; Sharaf et al., 2020: 552; Wang et al., 2022: 112; Sharaf et al., 2022: 82.
• Senior synonym of Trichomyrmex karawaiewi: Bolton, 1987: 326; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Zhou, 2001a: 112; Sharaf et al., 2016a: 20.

Junior synonyms

• Trichomyrmex karawaiewi (Emery, 1922)
  Obsolete combination(s): Monomorium gracillimum karawaiewi

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium gracillimum mayri

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