• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954c: 130 (l.)
• Subspecies of Myrmecina latreillii: Wheeler, 1900c: 48.
• Subspecies of Myrmecina graminicola: Wheeler, 1901c: 519 (in text); Wheeler, 1904f: 300; Wheeler, 1905j: 376; Wheeler, 1906g: 1; Wheeler, 1906i: 335; Wheeler, 1908h: 421; Wheeler, 1910a: 562; Wheeler, 1913d: 113; Wheeler, 1917a: 501; Wheeler, 1917k: 460; Emery, 1924f: 232; Smith, 1927b: 313; Wheeler, 1932a: 11; Cole, 1937a: 98; Dennis, 1938: 278; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 92; Buren, 1944a: 290; Smith, 1948: 239 (in key).
• Status as species: Brown, 1949a: 44; Creighton, 1950a: 248; Brown, 1951: 103; Smith, 1951c: 815; Cole, 1953i: 300; Smith, 1958c: 130; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Brown, 1967c: 236; Snelling, 1965b: 101; Smith, 1967a: 358; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Smith, 1979: 1399; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 139; MacKay et al., 1988: 91; Deyrup et al., 1989: 96; Wheeler et al., 1994: 303; Bolton, 1995b: 274; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 149; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Coovert, 2005: 82; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 72; Ward, 2005: 34; Ellison et al., 2012: 261; Deyrup, 2015: 1206 (in key); Deyrup, 2017: 78.
• Senior synonym of Myrmecina americana brevispinosa: Brown, 1951: 103; Smith, 1951c: 816; Cole, 1953i: 300; Brown, 1967c: 236; Smith, 1979: 1399; Bolton, 1995b: 274; Coovert, 2005: 82.
• Senior synonym of Myrmecina californica: Brown, 1967c: 236; Smith, 1979: 1399; Bolton, 1995b: 274; Ward, 2005: 34.
• Senior synonym of Myrmecina graminicola quadrispina: Brown, 1949a: 44; Creighton, 1950a: 249; Smith, 1951c: 816; Brown, 1967c: 236; Smith, 1979: 1399; Bolton, 1995b: 274; Coovert, 2005: 82.
• Senior synonym of Myrmecina americana texana: Brown, 1951: 103; Smith, 1958c: 130; Brown, 1967c: 236; Smith, 1979: 1399; Bolton, 1995b: 274.

Junior synonyms

• Myrmecina americana brevispinosa Creighton, 1950
• Myrmecina americana texana Wheeler, 1908
  Obsolete combination(s): Myrmecina graminicola texana
• Myrmecina californica Smith, 1948
• Myrmecina graminicola quadrispina Enzmann, 1946

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmecina latreillii americana

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