• [Misspelled as ceylonensis by Emery, 1912b: 104.]
• Forel, 1913g: 196 (w.); Bolton, 1988b: 138 (m.)
• Combination in Atopula: Emery, 1912b: 104; Emery, 1924f: 243.
• Combination in Leptothorax: Forel, 1916: 459.
• Combination in Paratopula: Wheeler, 1919f: 144; Bolton, 1988b: 138.
• Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 698; Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 190; Emery, 1912b: 104; Forel, 1913g: 196; Emery, 1924f: 243; Wheeler, 1929h: 61; Bernard, 1948: 177 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 118; Collingwood, 1962c: 225; Baltazar, 1966: 254; Bolton, 1988b: 138 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 312; Lin & Wu, 2003: 64; Terayama, 2009: 174; Xu & Xu, 2011: 595 (in key); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 49; Bharti et al., 2016: 41; Luo & Guénard, 2017: 10 (in key); Rasheed et al., 2019: 433; Dias et al., 2020: 80.
• Senior synonym of Paratopula ceylonica taylori: Bolton, 1988b: 138; Bolton, 1995b: 312.

Junior synonyms

• Paratopula ceylonica taylori (Forel, 1902)
  Obsolete combination(s): Leptothorax taylori

Obsolete combinations

• Atopomyrmex ceylonicus
• Atopula ceylonica

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