• Lectotype designation: Brown, 1978c: 586.
• Mayr, 1876: 86 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b: 1212 (l.); Imai et al., 1984: 5 (k.)
• Status as species: Mayr, 1876: 86; Emery, 1884: 378 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 47; Emery, 1911e: 108; Emery, 1914a: 180; Forel, 1915b: 35; Mann, 1919: 300; Mann, 1921: 426; Wheeler, 1924c: 243; Santschi, 1928a: 44; Wheeler, 1935g: 15; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 40; Wilson, 1959c: 507; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 32; Taylor, 1967b: 1094; Taylor, 1976a: 80; Brown, 1978c: 556, 586; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 20; Taylor, 1987a: 7; Radchenko, 1993a: 77; Dlussky, 1994a: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 64; Zhou, 2001a: 30; Wetterer, 2002: 128; Wetterer & Vargo, 2003: 416; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 12; Clouse, 2007b: 261; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 6; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 103; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 55; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 58; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 146; Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012: 11 (redescription); Zettel, 2012: 164; Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013a: 142 (in key); Sarnat et al., 2013: 73; Ramage, 2014: 151; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 40; Chen et al., 2019: 52 (redescription); Dias et al., 2020: 101; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 138; Wang et al., 2022: 115.
• Senior synonym of Anochetus amati: Wilson, 1959c: 507; Brown, 1978c: 557; Bolton, 1995b: 64; Zhou, 2001a: 30; Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012: 11.
• Senior synonym of Anochetus minutus: Wilson, 1959c: 507; Brown, 1978c: 557; Bolton, 1995b: 64; Zhou, 2001a: 30; Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012: 11.
• Senior synonym of Anochetus punctiventris oceanicus: Wilson, 1959c: 507; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 32; Brown, 1978c: 557; Taylor, 1987a: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 64; Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012: 11; Chen et al., 2019: 53.
• Senior synonym of Anochetus punctiventris: Wilson, 1959c: 507; Brown, 1978c: 557; Bolton, 1995b: 64; Zhou, 2001a: 30; Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012: 11; Chen et al., 2019: 52.
• Senior synonym of Anochetus rudis: Brown, 1978c: 557, 586; Bolton, 1995b: 64; Zhou, 2001a: 30; Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012: 11; Chen et al., 2019: 52.
• Senior synonym of Anochetus taylori: Brown, 1978c: 557, 586; Bolton, 1995b: 64; Zhou, 2001a: 30; Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012: 11.

Junior synonyms

• Anochetus amati Karavaiev, 1925
• Anochetus minutus Karavaiev, 1925
• Anochetus punctiventris Mayr, 1879
• Anochetus punctiventris oceanicus Emery, 1897
• Anochetus rudis Emery, 1889
• Anochetus taylori Forel, 1900
  Obsolete combination(s): Anochetus punctiventris taylori

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