• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955b: 18 (l.); Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 529 (m.)
• Combination in Croesomyrmex: Wheeler, 1931b: 32.
• combination in Leptothorax (Macromischa): Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 527.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Status as species: Mann, 1924a: 21; Aguayo, 1931: 181; Wheeler, 1937b: 465; Brown, 1959e: 73; Kempf, 1972b: 138; Alayo, 1974: 16 (in key); Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 527 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 353; Bolton, 1995b: 246; Fontenla, 2001: 16 (in key); Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Senior synonym of Temnothorax wheeleri petri: Brown, 1959e: 73; Kempf, 1972b: 139; Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 527; Brandão, 1991: 353; Bolton, 1995b: 246.

Junior synonyms

• Temnothorax wheeleri petri (Aguayo, 1931)
  Obsolete combination(s): Macromischa wheeleri petri

Obsolete combinations

• Macromischa wheeleri

Citations

• Aguayo, C. G. 1931. New ants of the genus Macromischa. Psyche (Cambridge) 38:175-183. PDF
• Alayo, P. 1974. Introducción al estudio de los Himenópteros de Cuba. Superfamilia Formicoidea. Serie Biológica. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 53:1-58. PDF
• 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
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1959e. Synonymy in the ant genus Macromischa Roger. Florida Entomologist 42:73-74. PDF
• Fontenla, J. L. 2001. Claves para las especies cubanas del taxon Macromischa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptothorax). Cocuyo (Havana) 11:15-17. 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
• Mann, W. M. 1924a. Notes on Cuban ants. Psyche (Cambridge) 31:19-23. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1955b. The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribe Leptothoracini. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 48:17-29. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1931b. New and little-known ants of the genera Macromischa, Creosomyrmex and Antillaemyrmex. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72:1-34. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1937b. Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 81:439-465. PDF