• Lectotype designation: Prebus, 2021b: 148.
• Prebus, 2021b: 155 (q.m.)
• Combination in Leptothorax (Macromischa): Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 442.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1937b: 464; Kempf, 1972b: 137; Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 442 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 351; Bolton, 1995b: 238; Bolton, 2003: 271; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 261; Prebus, 2021b: 63 (in key), 148 (diagnosis, redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Macromischa fuscata

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1978b. Materiali per una revisione dei Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 3:395-618. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42:403-439. PDF
• Prebus, M. M. 2021b. Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax. PeerJ 9:462 pp. e11514. 10.7717/peerj.11514 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1937b. Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 81:439-465. PDF