• Mychothorax as subgenus of Leptothorax: Ruzsky, 1905b: 157; Emery, 1915e: 24; Emery, 1916a: 176; Forel, 1917: 245; Wheeler, 1922: 679; Emery, 1924f: 260; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 664; Creighton, 1950a: 274.
• Mychothorax as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Wheeler, 1911g: 167; Smith, 1950a: 29; Brown, 1973b: 182 [provisional]; Smith, 1979: 1390; Bolton, 1982: 319; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; Ogata, 1991b: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 36; Bolton, 2003: 247.
• [Note: Leptothorax and Mychothorax share the same type-species, synonymy is therefore absolute.]

Obsolete classifications

• Leptothorax (Mychothorax)

Citations

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