• Status as species: Forel, 1901c: 5; Dahl, 1901: 18; Emery, 1911e: 33; Wheeler, 1935g: 9; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 26; Brown, 1951: 102; Brown, 1953c: 12; Wilson, 1958c: 148; Brown, 1960a: 177, 220; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Shattuck, 2008b: 27 (redescription); Sarnat et al., 2013: 69.
• [Note: Prionopelta majuscula is the oldest junior synonym of Prionopelta simillima Smith, 1860b (Brown, 1953c: 12; Wilson, 1958c: 144); hence first available replacement name.]
• Junior synonym of Prionopelta nominata: new synonymy (unpublished).
• [Note: because the conditions of Article 23.9.1 of ICZN (4th edition, 1999) do not appear to have been satisfied, the previously overlooked Prionopelta nominata Smith, 1871a, the first proposed replacement name for the junior homonym Prionopelta simillima Smith, 1860b, takes priority over Prionopelta churchilli Donisthorpe, 1949h, Prionopelta majuscula Emery, 1897c, Prionopelta poultoni Donisthorpe, 1932c, and Prionopelta testacea Donisthorpe, 1947e (B. Bolton note, 17.v.2016).]

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