• Lectotype designation: Bolton, 1982: 324.
• Santschi, 1914b: 107 (q.)
• Combination in Leptothorax (Goniothorax): Emery, 1896g: 58 (footnote).
• Combination in Nesomyrmex: Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 26; Mayr, 1863a: 426; André, 1883a: 295 (in key); Emery, 1884: 379; Emery, 1891c: 5 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 122; Santschi, 1907: 333; Forel, 1913d: 433; Forel, 1914d: 233; Santschi, 1914b: 107; Arnold, 1916: 258; Wheeler, 1922: 890; Emery, 1924f: 249; Finzi, 1936: 180; Santschi, 1938a: 39; Bernard, 1948: 146; Bernard, 1950c: 291; Bernard, 1953a: 173; Prins, 1963: 103; Bolton, 1982: 324 (redescription); Collingwood, 1985: 256; Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 235; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 325; Mbanyana & Robertson, 2008: 38; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 43; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 213; Borowiec, 2014: 138; Csősz & Fisher, 2016a: 14 (redescription); Hita Garcia et al., 2017: 15 (redescription); Sharaf et al., 2017: 26; Madl, 2019: 15; Sharaf et al., 2020: 355 (in key).
• Senior synonym of Nesomyrmex angulatus concolor: Bolton, 1982: 324; Bolton, 1995b: 235; Bolton, 2003: 272; Csősz & Fisher, 2016a: 16; Hita Garcia et al., 2017: 15.
• Senior synonym of Nesomyrmex angulatus ilgii: Bolton, 1982: 324; Bolton, 1995b: 235; Csősz & Fisher, 2016a: 14; Hita Garcia et al., 2017: 15.

Junior synonyms

• Nesomyrmex angulatus ilgii (Forel, 1894)
  Obsolete combination(s): Leptothorax angulatus ilgii

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax angulatus

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