• Lectotype designation: Laciny et al., 2015: 90.
• Emery, 1889: 496 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952c: 610 (l.)
• Combination in Diacamma: Mayr, 1862: 718
• Status as species: Roger, 1860: 305; Mayr, 1862: 718; Mayr, 1863a: 407; Roger, 1863b: 16; Smith, 1871a: 320; Mayr, 1886c: 358; Emery, 1887f: 435 (in key, footnote); Emery, 1889: 496; Dalla Torre, 1893: 29; Emery, 1895m: 458; Emery, 1897h: 162 (in key); Forel, 1900f: 319; Bingham, 1903: 77; Forel, 1906b: 91; Emery, 1911e: 65; Wheeler, 1927b: 42; Mukerjee, 1930: 150; Menozzi, 1939a: 328; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 60; Collingwood, 1962c: 224; Bolton, 1995b: 170; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 275; Laciny et al., 2015: 90 (redescription); Bharti et al., 2016: 50; Rasheed et al., 2019: 434.
• Senior synonym of Diacamma compressum: Dalla Torre, 1893: 29; Emery, 1911e: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 170; Laciny et al., 2015: 90.

Junior synonyms

• Diacamma compressum Mayr, 1879

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera scalprata

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