• Combination in Monomorium (Holcomyrmex): Emery, 1922c: 181.
• Subspecies of Trichomyrmex criniceps: Forel, 1903a: 693; Emery, 1922c: 181; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 163; Ettershank, 1966: 91; Bolton, 1995b: 265.
• Status as species: Tiwari, 1999: 56 (error).
• Junior synonym of Trichomyrmex criniceps: Radchenko, 1997g: 218

Obsolete combinations

• Holcomyrmex criniceps niger
• Monomorium criniceps niger
• Trichomyrmex criniceps niger

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:165-249. PDF
• Forel, A. 1903a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:679-715. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1997g. Review of the ants of scabriceps group of the genus Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 46:211-224. PDF
• Tiwari, R. N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4):1-96. PDF