• Wheeler, 1949: 675 (l.).
• Combination in Acromyrmex: Mann, 1916: 454.
• Status as species: Emery, 1905f: 44; Mann, 1916: 454; Wheeler, 1916c: 11; Emery, 1924f: 349.
• Junior synonym of Acromyrmex hystrix: Santschi, 1925a: 357; Borgmeier, 1927c: 132; Santschi, 1939e: 319 (in key); Gonçalves, 1961: 143; Kempf, 1972b: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 55; Fernández et al., 2015: 51.

Obsolete combinations

• Atta emilii

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
• Emery, C. 1905f. Revisione delle specie del genere Atta appartenenti ai sottogeneri Moellerius e Acromyrmex. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (6)2:39-54 [pagination of separate: 107-122].
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Fernández, F.; Castro-Huertas, V.; Serna, F. 2015. Hormigas cortadoras de hojas de Colombia: Acromyrmex & Atta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Fauna de Colombia, Monografía No.5. Bogotá D.C., Colombia: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 350 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1904d. Miscellanea myrmécologiques. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 12:1-52. PDF
• Gonçalves, C. R. 1961. O genero Acromyrmex no Brasil (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:113-180. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1916. The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director. The ants of Brazil. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60:399-490. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1925a. Revision du genre Acromyrmex Mayr. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31:355-398. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1939e. Études et descriptions de fourmis néotropiques. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 10:312-330. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C. 1949 ("1948"). The larvae of the fungus-growing ants. American Midland Naturalist 40:664-689. 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