• Mayr, 1876: 94 (q.); Forel, 1910b: 3 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952a: 112 (l.)
• Status as species: Roger, 1861a: 35; Mayr, 1862: 725 (in key); Roger, 1863b: 22; Mayr, 1863a: 430; Mayr, 1865: 84; Mayr, 1876: 94; Dalla Torre, 1893: 22; Forel, 1907j: 267; Forel, 1910b: 3; Emery, 1911e: 20; Forel, 1915b: 4; Crawley, 1915b: 232; Crawley, 1926: 378 (redescription).
• Junior synonym of Myrmecia forficata: Clark, 1951: 93.
• Junior synonym of Myrmecia pyriformis: Brown, 1953j: 9; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 15; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1629; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

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