Taxonomic history
[First available use of Stenamma fulvum aquia piceum Emery, 1895; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921c PDF: 57.As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1900c PDF: 48; Wheeler, 1901e PDF: 724; Wheeler, 1904f PDF: 303; Wheeler, 1905j PDF: 383; Wheeler, 1906g PDF: 6; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 565; Wheeler, 1916r: 586; Emery, 1921c PDF: 57; Smith, 1928c PDF: 275; Dennis, 1938 PDF: 286; Wing, 1939 PDF: 162; Wesson & Wesson, 1940 PDF: 93; Smith, 1951c PDF: 796.Subspecies of Aphaenogaster fulva: Buren, 1944a PDF: 284.Subspecies of Aphaenogaster rudis: Enzmann, 1947b PDF: 150 (in key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 148; Smith, 1958c PDF: 118; Smith, 1967a PDF: 352; Smith, 1979: 1362.[Note: Aphaenogaster picea was made available earlier than Aphaenogaster rudis; hence Aphaenogaster picea has priority (Bolton, 1995b: 72).].Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 72; Umphrey, 1996 PDF: 558 (in key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 76; Coovert, 2005 PDF: 48; MacGown & Forster, 2005 PDF: 71; Ellison et al., 2012: 230; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 358 (redescription).Senior synonym of Aphaenogaster punctithorax: Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 358.
