• [Unresolved junior primary homonym of †Pheidole cordata Holl, 1829 (Bolton, 1995b: 334).]
• Emery, 1887a: 250 (q.m.); Imai et al., 1984: 68 (k.)
• Combination in Hypoclinea: Mayr, 1879: 659.
• Combination in Iridomyrmex: Emery, 1887a: 249.
• Combination in Philidris: Shattuck, 1992a: 18.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 413; Smith, 1871a: 307; Mayr, 1879: 659 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 168; Emery, 1893g: 194; Forel, 1901c: 23; Dahl, 1901: 13; Emery, 1913a: 24; Viehmeyer, 1914c: 529; Wheeler, 1919f: 99; Karavaiev, 1926d: 434 (redescription); Clark, 1928b: 169; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 452; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 189; Wilson, 1962c: 17; Taylor, 1976a: 86; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 97; Tjan et al., 1986: 58; Taylor, 1987a: 31; Shattuck, 1994: 136; Bolton, 1995b: 334; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 17; Wang et al., 2022: 25.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica cordata
• Iridomyrmex cordatus

Citations

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