• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1960b: 10 (l.).
• Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 166.
• Junior synonym of Novomessor ensifer: Brown, 1974b: 46; Brandão, 1991: 326; Bolton, 1995b: 71; Demarco & Cognato, 2015: 8; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 465.

Obsolete combinations

• Aphaenogaster manni

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1974b. Novomessor manni a synonym of Aphaenogaster ensifera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 85:45-47. PDF
• Demarco, B. B.; Cognato, A. I. 2015. Phylogenetic analysis of Aphaenogaster supports the resurrection of Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 108 (2):201-210. 10.1093/aesa/sau013 PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1960b. Supplementary studies on the larvae of the Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 62:1-32. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M.; Creighton, W. S. 1934. A study of the ant genera Novomessor and Veromessor. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 69:341-387. PDF