• Lectotype designation: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 169 (in text), 175.
• Wheeler, 1916c: 9 (q.); Brown, 1974c: 140 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1980: 537 (l.); Probst & Brandão, 2022: 59 (intercaste, q.), 60 (m.), 62 (l.)
• Combination in Ceratobasis: Smith, 1860c: 78.
• Combination in Basiceros: Wheeler, 1916c: 9.
• Status as species: Smith, 1860c: 78 (redescription); Smith, 1862d: 415; Mayr, 1863a: 403; Roger, 1863b: 40; Mayr, 1887: 581; Dalla Torre, 1893: 148; Forel, 1895b: 136; Forel, 1911g: 263; Wheeler, 1916c: 9; Emery, 1924f: 328; Borgmeier, 1927c: 120; Brown, 1949h: 88; Weber, 1950d: 5; Brown & Kempf, 1960: 175 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 36; Brown, 1974c: 138; Brandão, 1991: 330; Bolton, 1995b: 80; Feitosa et al., 2007: 19 (in key); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 115; Fernández & Serna, 2019: 844; Probst & Brandão, 2022: 56 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Meranoplus singularis

Citations

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