• Lectotype designation: Trager, 1984b: 119.
• Kallal & LaPolla, 2012: 10 (q.)
• Combination in Prenolepis (Nylanderia): Forel, 1922b: 98.
• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 221.
• Combination in Nylanderia: LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• Subspecies of Nylanderia melanderi: Creighton, 1950a: 408; Smith, 1958c: 146; Smith, 1979: 1443.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Wheeler, 1913d: 116; Emery, 1925d: 221; Smith, 1928c: 278; Buren, 1944a: 295; Smith, 1951c: 848; Trager, 1984b: 119 (redescription); DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 150; Deyrup et al., 1989: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 312; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 355; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Coovert, 2005: 114; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 65; Kallal & LaPolla, 2012: 9 (redescription); Deyrup, 2017: 213.

Obsolete combinations

• Paratrechina arenivaga
• Prenolepis arenivaga

Citations

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