• Lectotype designation: Mackay & Dash, 2016: 7.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma): Emery, 1921c: 65
• Subspecies of Aphaenogaster phalangium: Emery, 1921c: 65; Kempf, 1972b: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 68.
• Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster araneoides: Longino & Cover, 2004: 9
• Status as species: Mackay & Dash, 2016: 6; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 222 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster phalangium brevicollis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899e. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:57-80. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Longino, J. T.; Cover, S. 2004. A revision of the Aphaenogaster phalangium complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 655:1-12. PDF
• Mackay, W. P.; Dash, S. T. 2016. A revision of the phalangium species complex of the ant genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 142:1-22. 10.3157/061.142.0108 PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.