• Kempf, 1975c: 361 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977a: 595 (l.)
• Combination in Ochetomyrmex: Kempf, 1961b: 511
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 294; Kusnezov, 1952h: 174; Kempf, 1961b: 511; Kempf, 1972b: 168; Kempf, 1975c: 359 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 362; Bolton, 1995b: 293.
• Junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex semipolitus: Fernández, 2003h: 638

Obsolete combinations

• Wasmannia subpolita

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2003h. Myrmicine ants of the genera Ochetomyrmex and Tranopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41:633-661.
• Kempf, W. W. 1961b. A survey of the ants of the soil fauna in Surinam (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:481-524. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1975c. Miscellaneous studies on neotropical ants. VI. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 18:341-380. PDF
• Kusnezov, N. 1952h ("1951"). El género Wasmannia en la Argentina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 10:173-182. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1977a. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 103:581-602. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1916c. Ants collected in British Guiana by the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during 1911. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35:1-14. PDF