• Combination in Monomorium (Xeromyrmex): Emery, 1922c: 179.
• Subspecies of Monomorium venustum: Forel, 1910a: 6; Wheeler & Mann, 1916: 170; Stitz, 1917: 346; Emery, 1922c: 179; Finzi, 1936: 175.
• Status as species: André, 1883a: 334 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 67; Emery, 1908j: 678; Santschi, 1936a: 37; Ettershank, 1966: 91; Collingwood, 1985: 272; Kugler, 1988: 258; Bolton, 1995b: 265; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 352; Mohamed et al., 2001: 52; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 43; Collingwood et al., 2011: 435; Borowiec, 2014: 123 (see note in bibliography); Sharaf et al., 2018: 26; Sharaf et al., 2021: 37; Sharaf et al., 2022: 66.
• Senior synonym of Monomorium matame: Sharaf et al., 2021: 37.

Junior synonyms

• Monomorium matame Collingwood & Agosti, 1996

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium venustum niloticum

Citations

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