• [Duplicated in Jerdon, 1854a: 48.]
• Bingham, 1903: 158 (m.)
• Combination in Solenopsis: Emery, 1892c: 166.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 163; Mayr, 1863a: 397.
• Subspecies of Solenopsis geminata: Forel, 1899a: 119; Forel, 1901c: 14; Bingham, 1903: 159; Forel, 1903a: 689; Forel, 1903f: 405; Wheeler, 1907b: 272; Forel, 1908b: 3; Wheeler, 1908c: 165; Forel, 1909a: 268; Forel, 1909k: 394; Wheeler, 1909d: 340; Forel, 1910d: 123; Wheeler, 1910a: 563; Forel, 1911g: 268; Wheeler, 1912a: 45; Forel, 1913l: 55; Emery, 1914f: 412; Crawley, 1915a: 135; Crawley, 1915b: 239; Wheeler, 1915b: 397; Viehmeyer, 1916b: 285; Santschi, 1919a: 326; Wheeler, 1919f: 84; Santschi, 1920h: 161; Emery, 1922c: 197; Santschi, 1924c: 99; Crawley, 1924a: 399; Stitz, 1925c: 119; Wheeler, 1927b: 45; Wheeler, 1927e: 1; Wheeler, 1927h: 90; Cheesman & Crawley, 1928: 518; Santschi, 1928h: 125; Wheeler, 1928c: 20; Creighton, 1930b: 66; Menozzi, 1930h: 327; Smith, 1930a: 3; Wheeler, 1930k: 68; Wheeler, 1932a: 10; Wheeler, 1932g: 16; Santschi, 1932d: 14; Wheeler, 1934i: 12; Donisthorpe, 1935: 633; Karavaiev, 1935a: 94; Wheeler, 1935g: 26; Wheeler, 1936g: 8; Cole, 1937a: 99; Creighton, 1950a: 231; Smith, 1951c: 812; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 168; Baltazar, 1966: 260.
• Junior synonym of Solenopsis geminata: Dalla Torre, 1893: 76; Ettershank, 1966: 141; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 58; Kempf, 1972b: 235; Smith, 1979: 1385; Trager, 1991: 163; Bolton, 1995b: 390; Tiwari, 1999: 57; Zhou, 2001a: 88; Ramage, 2014: 162; Borowiec & Salata, 2025a: 384.

Obsolete combinations

• Atta rufa

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