• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 23; Mayr, 1863a: 430; Mayr, 1876: 97; Dalla Torre, 1893: 19.
• Junior synonym of Myrmecia simillima: Forel, 1907j: 265; Emery, 1911e: 20; Clark, 1951: 89; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 16; Taylor, 1987a: 46; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1629; Bolton, 1995b: 270.

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