• Lectotype designation: LaPolla, 2004a: 45.
• [Misspelled as dubita by Donisthorpe, 1936b: 110 (in list).]
• Combination in Acropyga (Rhizomyrma): Emery, 1925d: 29
• Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 29; Donisthorpe, 1936b: 110 (in list); Weber, 1944b: 98 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 57; LaPolla, 2004a: 45 (redescription); Lubertazzi, 2019: 67.

Obsolete combinations

• Rhizomyrma dubitata

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Donisthorpe, H. 1936b. Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) robae sp. nov. (Hym. Formicidae), a new S. American ant, with remarks on the genus, etc. Entomologist 69:108-111. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
• Lubertazzi, D. 2019. The ants of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162 (2):59-210. 10.3099/MCZ-43.1 PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1944b. The neotropical coccid-tending ants of the genus Acropyga Roger. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 37:89-122. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1914. The ants of Haiti. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33:1-61. PDF