• Forel, 1908: 395 (m.); Wild, 2007a: 70 (q.)
• Combination in Iridomyrmex: Emery, 1890c: 56.
• Combination in Linepithema: Shattuck, 1992a: 16.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1870b: 958 (in key); Forel, 1893j: 351; Dalla Torre, 1893: 169; von Jhering, 1894: 378; Forel, 1895b: 110; Forel, 1899b: 102; Forel, 1905e: 159; Wheeler, 1905c: 132; Forel, 1907h: 7; Forel, 1908: 395; Wheeler, 1911a: 29; Wheeler, 1911b: 170; Forel, 1912i: 47; Emery, 1913a: 27; Wheeler, 1913e: 242; Wheeler, 1917g: 462; Luederwaldt, 1918: 47; Borgmeier, 1923: 87; Stärcke, 1926a: 117 (in key); Eidmann, 1936b: 89; Wheeler, 1942: 213; Creighton, 1950a: 342; Kempf, 1972b: 125; Shattuck, 1994: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 247; Wild, 2007a: 67 (redescription); Wild, 2007b: 25; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 254; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 109; Escárraga & Guerrero, 2016: 453; Guerrero, 2019: 714.
• Senior synonym of Linepithema iniquum bicolor: Wild, 2007a: 67.
• Senior synonym of Linepithema melleus dominicensis: Wild, 2007a: 67.
• Senior synonym of Linepithema melleus fuscescens: Wild, 2007a: 67.
• Senior synonym of Linepithema melleus: Wild, 2007a: 67.
• Senior synonym of Linepithema iniquum nigellus: Wild, 2007a: 67.
• Senior synonym of Linepithema melleus succineus: Wild, 2007a: 67.
• Material of the unavailable name Linepithema melleus succineus paranaensis referred here by Wild, 2007a: 67.

Junior synonyms

• Linepithema iniquum bicolor (Forel, 1912)
  Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex iniquus bicolor
• Linepithema iniquum nigellus (Emery, 1890)
  Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex iniquus nigellus
• Linepithema melleus (Wheeler, 1908)
  Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex melleus
• Linepithema melleus dominicensis (Wheeler, 1913)
  Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex melleus dominicensis
• Linepithema melleus fuscescens (Wheeler, 1908)
  Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex melleus fuscescens
• Linepithema melleus succineus (Forel, 1908)
  Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex melleus succineus

Obsolete combinations

• Hypoclinea iniqua
• Iridomyrmex iniquus

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