• Combination in Macromischa (Croesomyrmex): Mann, 1920b: 408.
• Combination in Croesomyrmex: Wheeler, 1931b: 26.
• Combination in Leptothorax (Macromischa): Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 477.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 247; Mann, 1920b: 408 (in key); Mann, 1924a: 21 (redescription); Wheeler, 1931b: 26; Santschi, 1931d: 274; Aguayo, 1932: 222; Wheeler, 1937b: 465; Kempf, 1972b: 138; Alayo, 1974: 15 (in key); Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 477 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 352; Bolton, 1995b: 243; Fontenla Rizo, 1997b: 52; Fontenla, 2001: 16 (in key); Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Senior synonym of Temnothorax rugiceps: Fontenla Rizo, 1997b: 52

Junior synonyms

• Temnothorax rugiceps (Aguayo, 1932)
  Obsolete combination(s): Macromischa poeyi rugiceps

Obsolete combinations

• Macromischa poeyi

Citations

• Aguayo, C. G. 1932. Notes on West Indian ants. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27:215-227. PDF
• Alayo, P. 1974. Introducción al estudio de los Himenópteros de Cuba. Superfamilia Formicoidea. Serie Biológica. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 53:1-58. PDF
• Baroni Urbani, C. 1978b. Materiali per una revisione dei Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 3:395-618. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
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• Fontenla Rizo, J. L. 1997b. Notas y sinónimos nuevos de Leptothorax (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Cuba. Avicennia 6/7:47-53. PDF
• Fontenla, J. L. 2001. Claves para las especies cubanas del taxon Macromischa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptothorax). Cocuyo (Havana) 11:15-17. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42:403-439. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1924a. Notes on Cuban ants. Psyche (Cambridge) 31:19-23. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1931d. Fourmis de Cuba et de Panama. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 1:265-282. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1913b. The ants of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 54:477-505. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1931b. New and little-known ants of the genera Macromischa, Creosomyrmex and Antillaemyrmex. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72:1-34. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1937b. Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 81:439-465. PDF