Taxonomic history
Replacement name for Monomorium minutum Mayr, 1855. [Junior secondary homonym of Atta minuta Jerdon, 1851.].Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 55; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 272 (in key); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 357; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Poldi et al., 1995: 4; Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004 PDF: 215; Ghosh et al., 2005 PDF: 28; Bračko, 2006 PDF: 137; Cagniant, 2006 PDF: 196; Petrov, 2006 PDF: 94 (in key); Bračko, 2007 PDF: 17; Fernández, 2007b: 137; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 489; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2009 PDF: 43; Karaman, 2011b PDF: 42; Legakis, 2011 PDF: 14; Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 47; Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 518; Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 46; Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 21; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 122; Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 39; Lebas et al., 2016: 302; Borowiec & Salata, 2018a 10.5281/zenodo.1481802 PDF: 6; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 47; Dekoninck et al., 2019 PDF: 1155.Wilson and Taylor (1967) mention the presence of this Old World species (as M. minutum Mayr ) from Brazil. However, I know of no confirmed records in the literature. It has also been recorded from Barbados (Kempf, 1972).