• Donisthorpe, 1948g: 142 (m.)
• Combination in Prenolepis (Nylanderia): Emery, 1914f: 422.
• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 221.
• Combination in Paratrechina: Bolton, 1995b: 315.
• Combination in Nylanderia: Wheeler, 1934a: 181; LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
• Subspecies of Nylanderia obscura: Dahl, 1901: 14; Wheeler, 1908c: 167; Wheeler, 1922n: 318.
• Status as species: Emery, 1914f: 424; Emery, 1925d: 221; Wheeler, 1927i: 150; Wheeler, 1934a: 181; Goetsch & Menozzi, 1935: 102; Wheeler, 1935g: 50; Wheeler, 1936g: 17; Donisthorpe, 1948b: 317; Donisthorpe, 1948g: 142; Donisthorpe, 1949c: 759; Donisthorpe, 1950a: 341; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 217; Brown, 1958h: 46; Wilson, 1962c: 18; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 90, 103; Taylor, 1967b: 1094; Taylor, 1976a: 88; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 130; Taylor, 1987a: 52; Dlussky, 1994a: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 315; Wetterer, 2002: 129; Wetterer & Vargo, 2003: 417; Wetterer, 2006: 415; Clouse, 2007b: 221; LaPolla et al., 2011: 13 (in key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 64; Sarnat et al., 2013: 70; Ramage, 2014: 158; Herrera et al., 2024: 170.
• Senior synonym of Nylanderia vaga crassipilis: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 315; Ramage, 2014: 158.
• Senior synonym of Nylanderia vaga irritans: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 315.

Junior synonyms

• Nylanderia vaga crassipilis (Santschi, 1928)
  Obsolete combination(s): Paratrechina vaga crassipilis
• Nylanderia vaga irritans (Santschi, 1928)
  Obsolete combination(s): Paratrechina vaga irritans

Obsolete combinations

• Paratrechina vaga
• Prenolepis obscura vaga

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