• Lectotype designation: Snelling, 1976: 57.
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 213 (l.)
• Combination in Myrmecocystus (Endiodioctes): Snelling, 1976: 54.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925d: 239.
• Subspecies of Myrmecocystus melliger: Wheeler, 1910a: 571; Wheeler, 1912e: 176; Cole, 1937b: 138; Smith, 1951c: 855.
• Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 446; Cole, 1954g: 285; Smith, 1958c: 152; Cole, 1966b: 21 (in key); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 23; Snelling, 1976: 54 (redescription); Francoeur & Snelling, 1979: 6; Smith, 1979: 1447; Snelling & George, 1979: 229; Dlussky, 1981b: 48; Allred, 1982: 488; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 72; Bolton, 1995b: 275; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 397; Ward, 2005: 64.
• Senior synonym of Myrmecocystus melliger jesuita: Creighton, 1950a: 447; Smith, 1958c: 152; Snelling, 1976: 54; Smith, 1979: 1447; Snelling & George, 1979: 229; Bolton, 1995b: 275.
• Senior synonym of Myrmecocystus melliger lomaensis: Creighton, 1950a: 447; Smith, 1958c: 152; Snelling, 1976: 54; Smith, 1979: 1447; Snelling & George, 1979: 229; Bolton, 1995b: 275.

Junior synonyms

• Myrmecocystus melliger jesuita Cole, 1937
• Myrmecocystus melliger lomaensis Wheeler, 1912

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmecocystus melliger mimicus

Citations

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