• Combination in Leptothorax (Macromischa): Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 505.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1908a: 142 (in key); Mann, 1920b: 410 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 247; Wheeler, 1937b: 465; Kempf, 1972b: 138; Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 505 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 353; Bolton, 1995b: 245; Fontenla Rizo, 1997b: 52; Fontenla, 2001: 17 (in key); Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Senior synonym of Temnothorax scabripes brunneipes: Fontenla Rizo, 1997b: 52.
• Senior synonym of Temnothorax scabripes: Fontenla Rizo, 1997b: 52.

Junior synonyms

• Temnothorax scabripes (Mann, 1920)
  Obsolete combination(s): Macromischa scabripes
• Temnothorax scabripes brunneipes (Wheeler, 1937)
  Obsolete combination(s): Macromischa scabripes brunneipes

Obsolete combinations

• Macromischa splendens

Citations

• 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
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1905c. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:79-135. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1908a. The ants of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:117-158. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1937b. Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 81:439-465. PDF