Taxonomic history
Creighton, 1927 PDF: 27 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955b PDF: 26 (l.).Combination in Tomognathus (Protomognathus): Wheeler, 1905a PDF: 3.Combination in Harpagoxenus: Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 494.Combination in Protomognathus: Cover, in Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 65.Combination in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2015 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF: 15.See also: Smith, 1939b PDF: 166.