- Acridium melanorhodon Walker, 1870: 584.
Holotype; female; 317e0a95-f05f-49f5-8bdf-22d39bd8059a; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Cape Verde: Santa Catarina: Santiago
- Schistocerca exsul Scudder, 1893: 4.
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- Acridium aethiopicum Finot, 1907: 269, 346.
Syntype; male; 9ba88b83-163b-425a-8c57-2cbee2d09b7a; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Ethiopia. Syntype; female; 1a73b294-4794-4742-bea8-e3ab47ce7617; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Ethiopia
- Locusta (Orthacanthacris) wernerella var. sphalera Karny, 1907: 305.
Syntype; 0e9cc3dd-9cb9-440a-886a-4343b3e831e6; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW); Sudan: Renk
- Orthacanthacris aethiopica (Finot, 1907) in Kirby, 1910: 445.
- Orthacanthacris sphalera (Karny, 1907) in Kirby, 1910: 444.
- Orthacanthacris melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Kirby, 1910: 445.
- Orthacanthacris aethiopica (Finot, 1907) in Sjöstedt, 1918: 5.
- Orthacanthacris melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Sjöstedt, 1918: 5.
- Anacridium moestum melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Uvarov, 1923: 488.
- Anacridium moestum melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Morales-Agacino, 1945: 163.
- Anacridium moestum melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Morales-Agacino, 1945: 334.
- Acridium aethiopicum Finot, 1907 (subjective synonym of Acridium melanorhodon Walker, 1870) in Dirsh & Uvarov, 1953: 16.
- Locusta (Orthacanthacris) wernerella var. sphalera Karny, 1907 (subjective synonym of Acridium melanorhodon Walker, 1870) in Dirsh & Uvarov, 1953: 16.
- Anacridium melanorhodon melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Dirsh & Uvarov, 1953: 16.
- Acridium aethiopicum Finot, 1907 (subjective synonym of Acridium melanorhodon Walker, 1870) in Johnston, 1956: 362.
- Locusta (Orthacanthacris) wernerella var. sphalera Karny, 1907 (subjective synonym of Acridium melanorhodon Walker, 1870) in Johnston, 1956: 362.
- Anacridium melanorhodon melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Johnston, 1956: 362.
- Anacridium melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Shumakov, 1963: 96.
- Anacridium melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Dirsh, 1965: 31.
- Anacridium melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Dirsh, 1965: 383.
- Anacridium melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Uvarov, 1966: 143, 255, 278.
- Anacridium melanorhodon melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Johnston, 1968: 275.
- Anacridium melanorhodon melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Centre for Overseas Pest Research, 1982: 322.
- Schistocerca exsul Scudder, 1893 (synonym of Acridium melanorhodon Walker, 1870) in Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 54.
- Anacridium melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Paul, 1997: 197.
- Anacridium melanorhodon melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Mestre & Chiffaud, 2006: 60.
- Anacridium melanorhodon melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Usmani, 2008: 18.
- Anacridium melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Massa, 2009: 82.
- Anacridium melanorhodon (Walker, 1870) in Lecoq, 2019: 17.