• Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 123; Wheeler, 1922: 826.
• Subspecies of Myrmicaria fusca: Santschi, 1925c: 167; Prins, 1963: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 285.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmicaria nigerrima

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1916. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part II. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:159-270. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Prins, A. J. 1963. A list of the ants collected in the Kruger National Park with notes on their distribution. Koedoe 6:91-108. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1925c ("1924"). Révision des Myrmicaria d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 64:133-176. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.