• Lectotype designation: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Combination in Rhizomyrma: Forel, 1912j: 60.
• Combination in Acropyga (Rhizomyrma): Emery, 1925d: 29.
• Junior synonym of Acropyga decedens: Costa Lima, 1931: 7.
• Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 107; Forel, 1912j: 60; Emery, 1925d: 29; Borgmeier, 1927c: 137; Wheeler, 1935f: 327; Donisthorpe, 1936b: 110 (in list); Weber, 1944b: 93 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 57; LaPolla, 2004a: 49 (redescription); Wild, 2007b: 27; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 227; Wetterer et al., 2016: 5; Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019: 732.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga borgmeieri: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga goeldii columbica: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga marshalli: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga pachycera: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga pickeli: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga quadriceps: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga rutgersi: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga goeldii tridentata: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.
• Senior synonym of Acropyga trinitatis: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.

Junior synonyms

• Acropyga borgmeieri Donisthorpe, 1939
• Acropyga goeldii columbica (Forel, 1912)
  Obsolete combination(s): Rhizomyrma goeldii columbica
• Acropyga goeldii tridentata (Forel, 1912)
  Obsolete combination(s): Rhizomyrma goeldii tridentata
• Acropyga marshalli (Crawley, 1921)
  Obsolete combination(s): Rhizomyrma marshalli
• Acropyga pachycera (Emery, 1906)
  Obsolete combination(s): Rhizomyrma pachycera
• Acropyga pickeli Borgmeier, 1927
• Acropyga quadriceps Weber, 1944
• Acropyga rutgersi Bünzli, 1935
• Acropyga trinitatis Weber, 1944

Obsolete combinations

• Rhizomyrma goeldii

Citations

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