• Subspecies of Acromyrmex octospinosus: Kempf, 1972b: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 57 (error).
• Status as species: Wetterer, 1993: 66.

Obsolete combinations

• Acromyrmex octospinosus volcanus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Wetterer, J. K. 1993. Foraging and nesting ecology of a Costa Rican leaf-cutting ant, Acromyrmex volcanus. Psyche (Cambridge) 100:65-76.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1937c. Mosaics and other anomalies among ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 95 pp. PDF