• Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 270.
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1960b: 22 (l.); Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 268 (q.)
• Status as species: Emery, 1896g: 86 (in key); Wheeler, 1910a: 563; Emery, 1922c: 200; Borgmeier, 1927c: 106; Smith, 1930a: 3; Wheeler, 1932a: 10; Smith, 1943a: 211 (in key); Creighton, 1950a: 237; Smith, 1951c: 814; Smith, 1958c: 130; Wilson, 1964b: 9; Ettershank, 1966: 143; Smith, 1967a: 358; Smith, 1979: 1388; Thompson, 1989: 271 (in key); Thompson & Johnson, 1989: 697 (in key); Deyrup et al., 1989: 96; Bolton, 1995b: 390; Deyrup, 2003: 47; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 70; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 268 (redescription); Deyrup, 2017: 111.
• Senior synonym of Solenopsis picta moerens: Creighton, 1950a: 237; Smith, 1958c: 130; Smith, 1979: 1388; Bolton, 1995b: 390; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 268.

Junior synonyms

• Solenopsis picta moerens Wheeler, 1915

Citations

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