• Combination in Pheidologeton (Aneleus): Emery, 1900b: 327.
• Combination in Aneleus (Aneleus): Emery, 1924f: 214.
• Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124.
• Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 32; Mayr, 1863a: 454; Mayr, 1865: 109 (redescription); Mayr, 1870b: 996 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 77; Forel, 1903a: 691; Forel, 1903f: 405; Emery, 1924f: 214; Wheeler, 1924c: 246; Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 300; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 7; Bharti et al., 2016: 35.

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidologeton similis
• Solenopsis similis

Citations

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