• Schenck, 1852: 69 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 135 (l.)
• Combination in Plagiolepis: Mayr, 1861: 43
• Status as species: Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 249 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Plagiolepis dufourii: Menozzi, 1925a: 19 (footnote).
• Senior synonym of Plagiolepis obscureiscapus: Boer, 2008: 486.
• See also: Stitz, 1939: 231; Kutter, 1977c: 185; Sharaf et al., 2011: 207

Junior synonyms

• Plagiolepis dufourii (Perris, 1878)
  Obsolete combination(s): Micromyrma dufourii
• Plagiolepis obscureiscapus Santschi, 1923
  Obsolete combination(s): Plagiolepis pygmaea obscureiscapus

Obsolete combinations

• Formica pygmaea

Citations

• Boer, P. 2008. Plagiolepis obscuriscapa Santschi, 1923, a junior synonym of Plagiolepis pygmaea (Latreille, 1798) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) and the use of pigmentation as discriminating character in ant taxonomy. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 82:485-488. PDF
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2022. A monographic review of ants of Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Vol. 1. Introduction and review of all subfamilies except the subfamily Myrmicinae. Part 1: text. Bytom: Natural History Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum, 1-297. PDF
• Kutter, H. 1977c. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. Insecta Helvetica. Fauna 6:1-298.
• Latreille, P. A. 1798. Essai sur l'histoire des fourmis de la France. Brive: F. Bourdeaux, 50 pp. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1861. Die europäischen Formiciden. Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Wien: C. Gerolds Sohn, 80 pp. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1925a. Note staccate di mirmecologia. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 57:17-22. PDF
• Schenck, C. F. 1852. Beschreibung nassauischer Ameisenarten. Jahrbuch des Vereins für Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau. Wiesbaden 8:1-149. PDF
• Sharaf, M. R.; Aldawood, A. S.; Taylor, B. 2011. The formicine ant genus Plagiolepis Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula, with description of two new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 137:203-215. PDF
• Stitz, H. 1939. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meersteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 37. Theil. Hautflüger oder Hymenoptera. I: Ameisen oder Formicidae. Jena: G. Fischer, 428 pp.
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1953c. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:126-171. PDF