• [Also described as new by Nylander, 1856b: 73.]
• Combination in Tapinoma: Smith, 1858a: 56.
• Combination in Formica (Tapinoma): Roger, 1859: 239.
• Combination in Prenolepis: Mayr, 1862: 698.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 56; Roger, 1859: 239; Mayr, 1862: 698; Mayr, 1863a: 451; White, 1884: 257.
• Junior synonym of Paratrechina longicornis: Roger, 1863b: 10; Mayr, 1865: 50; Mayr, 1867a: 72; Mayr, 1867d: 442; Dours, 1873: 165; Emery & Forel, 1879: 466; Forel, 1881: 2; Forel, 1891c: 81; Dalla Torre, 1893: 179; Forel, 1894c: 408; Forel, 1895b: 105; Forel, 1899b: 125; Wheeler, 1908a: 154; Wheeler, 1919d: 276; Wheeler, 1919f: 103; Wheeler, 1922: 942; Emery, 1925d: 217; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 399; Donisthorpe, 1935: 635; Creighton, 1950a: 405; Smith, 1954c: 13; Smith, 1979: 1443; Snelling & George, 1979: 198; Trager, 1984b: 153; Bolton, 1995b: 312; Zhou, 2001a: 177; LaPolla et al., 2013: 74; LaPolla & Fisher, 2014b: 40.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica gracilescens

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