• Santschi, 1914b: 83 (s.w. descriptions)
• Combination in Oligomyrmex (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924f: 218.
• Combination in Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma): Weber, 1952a: 11.
• Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235
• Status as species: Santschi, 1914b: 83; Emery, 1915e: 14; Wheeler, 1922: 882; Emery, 1924f: 218; Finzi, 1939a: 165; Weber, 1952a: 11 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 299; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 208; Madl, 2019: 14.

Obsolete combinations

• Oligomyrmex jeanneli

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1915e. Formiche raccolte nell'Eritrea dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 10:3-26. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. PDF
• Finzi, B. 1939a. Materiali zoologici dell'Eritrea raccolti da G. Müller durante la spedizione dell'Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese e conservati al Museo di Trieste. Parte III. Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste 14:153-168. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
• Madl, M. 2019. Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B Für Botanik Und Zoologie 121:9-18. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1913e. Clé dichotomique des Oligomyrmex africains (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1913:459-460. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1952a. Studies on African Myrmicinae, I (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1548:1-32. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.