• Myrmecinella in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Wheeler, 1922f: 3; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 665.
• Myrmecinella as genus: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 665.
• Myrmecinella as junior synonym of Xenomyrmex: Wheeler, 1931a: 129: Kempf, 1972b: 259; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1995b: 36; Bolton, 2003: 254.

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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• Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922f. A new genus and subgenus of Myrmicinae from tropical America. American Museum Novitates 46:1-6. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1931a. Neotropical ants of the genus Xenomyrmex Forel. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 1:129-139. PDF