• Santschi, 1912c: 148 (q.)
• Combination in Leptothorax (Goniothorax): Wheeler, 1922: 891.
• Subspecies of Nesomyrmex angulatus: Santschi, 1912c: 148; Wheeler, 1922: 891; Emery, 1924f: 249; Menozzi & Consani, 1952: 66.
• Junior synonym of Nesomyrmex angulatus: Bolton, 1982: 324; Bolton, 1995b: 239; Csősz & Fisher, 2016a: 14; Hita Garcia et al., 2017: 15.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax angulatus ilgii

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmicine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 45:307-370. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Csősz, S.; Fisher, B. L. 2016a. Taxonomic revision of the Malagasy members of the Nesomyrmex angulatus species group using the automated morphological species delineation protocol NC-PART-clustering. PeerJ 4:35 pp. e1796. 10.7717/peerj.1796 PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1894b. Abessinische und andere afrikanische Ameisen, gesammelt von Herrn Ingenieur Alfred Ilg, von Herrn Dr. Liengme, von Herrn Pfarrer Missionar P. Berthoud, Herrn Dr. Arth. Müller etc. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 9:64-100. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Mbanyana, N.; Audisio, T. L.; Alpert, G. D. 2017. Taxonomy of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in the Afrotropical region, with a review of current species groups and description of a new species of the N. angulatus group from Mozambique. European Journal of Taxonomy 258:1-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.258 PDF
• Menozzi, C.; Consani, M. 1952. Missione biologica Sagan-Omo diretta dal Prof. E. Zavattari. Hymenoptera Formicidae. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale 11:57-71. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1912c. Quelques nouvelles variétés de fourmis africaines. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 3:147-149. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.