• Wheeler, 1911b: 170 (m.)
• Combination in Cyphomyrmex (Mycetophylax): Emery, 1913c: 251.
• Combination in Myrmicocrypta (Mycetophylax): Santschi, 1922c: 357 (in key).
• Combination in Mycetophylax: Weber, 1937: 401.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1911b: 170; Santschi, 1922c: 357 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 343; Weber, 1937: 401; Smith, 1937: 858; Weber, 1945: 27.
• Junior synonym of Mycetophylax conformis: Kempf, 1962b: 34; Kempf, 1972b: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 268; Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 7.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmicocrypta brittoni

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1913c. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [V-VII.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:250-262. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1962b. Miscellaneous studies on neotropical ants. II. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 5:1-38. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Klingenberg, C.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2009. Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini). Zootaxa 2052:1-31. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1922c. Myrmicines, dolichodérines et autres formicides néotropiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 54:345-378. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1937 ("1936"). The ants of Puerto Rico. Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 20:819-875. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1937. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part l. New forms. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 7:378-409. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1945. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VIII. The Trinidad, B. W. I., species. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 16:1-88. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1907d. The fungus-growing ants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:669-807. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1911b. Ants collected in Grenada, W. I. by Mr. C. T. Brues. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 54:167-172. PDF