• [First available use of Aphaenogaster testaceopilosa semipolita melitensis Emery, 1924b; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Boer, 2013: 69 (q.)
• Material referred to Aphaenogaster testaceopilosa semipolita ionia Emery, 1915a by Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 418.
• Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster ionia Santschi, 1933d: Bolton, 1995b: 71.
• Status as species: Boer, 2013: 68 (redescription); Borowiec, 2014: 15; Lebas et al., 2016: 250

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster semipolita melitensis

Citations

• Boer, P. 2013. Revision of the European ants of the Aphaenogaster testaceopilosa-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 156:57-93. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
• Santschi, F. 1933d. Étude sur le sous-genre Aphaenogaster Mayr. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40:389-408. PDF
• Schembri, S. P.; Collingwood, C. A. 1981. A revision of the myrmecofauna of the Maltese Islands (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 83:417-442. PDF