• [Misspelled as pallidipes by Dalla Torre, 1893: 40.]
• Combination in Lasius: Fabricius, 1804: 417.
• Combination in Ponera: Latreille, 1818b: 570.
• Status as species: Gmelin, 1790: 2798; Olivier, 1792: 495; Fabricius, 1793: 356; Latreille, 1802a: 284; Fabricius, 1804: 417; Smith, 1858a: 46; Mayr, 1863a: 449; Dalla Torre, 1893: 40; Emery, 1911e: 116.
• Incertae sedis in Ponerinae: Kempf, 1972b: 260.
• Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Formica: Bolton, 1995b: 200.

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