• Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 15
• Status as species: Clark, 1951: 194 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 15; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata, 1991a: 362; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1631; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Obsolete combinations

• Promyrmecia rubicunda

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 13:83-149. PDF
• Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
• Ogata, K. 1991a. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a review of the species groups and their phylogenetic relationships (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Systematic Entomology 16:353-381. PDF
• Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Journal of Natural History 25:1623-1673. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.