• Lectotype designation: Trager, 1984b: 104.
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 211 (l.)
• Combination in Prenolepis (Nylanderia): Forel, 1922b: 98.
• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 222.
• Combination in Nylanderia: LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• Subspecies of Nylanderia vividula: Forel, 1885a: 348; Mayr, 1886d: 431.
• Junior synonym of Nylanderia vividula: Cresson, 1887: 257.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 179; Emery, 1893k: 636; Wheeler, 1905j: 390; Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Wheeler, 1917k: 463; Emery, 1925d: 222; Smith, 1927b: 313; Smith, 1930a: 6; Wheeler, 1932a: 16; Dennis, 1938: 295; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 100; Buren, 1944a: 295; Creighton, 1950a: 409; Smith, 1951c: 848; Smith, 1958c: 147; Carter, 1962a: 7 (in list); Wilson, 1964b: 10; Smith, 1967a: 367; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1444; Allred, 1982: 492; Trager, 1984b: 104 (redescription); DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 150; Deyrup et al., 1989: 100; Wheeler et al., 1994: 308; Bolton, 1995b: 315; Deyrup, 2003: 46; Coovert, 2005: 116; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 65; Ellison et al., 2012: 210; Kallal & LaPolla, 2012: 27 (redescription); Deyrup, 2017: 217.

Obsolete combinations

• Prenolepis parvula

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