• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 149; Forel, 1895b: 137; Wheeler, 1911k: 208 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 338; Kempf, 1972b: 24; Bolton, 1995b: 74.
• [Note: member of unresolved Apterostigma pilosum-complex: Lattke, 1997: 165.]

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1892d. Attini und Cryptocerini. Zwei neue Apterostigma-Arten. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 8:344-349. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Lattke, J. E. 1997. Revisión del género Apterostigma Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arquivos do Instituto Biológico (São Paulo) 34:121-221. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1911k. Three new ants from Mexico and Central America. Psyche (Cambridge) 18:203-208. PDF