• Lectotype designation: Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2002: 681.
• Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2002: 683 (q.)
• Combination in Trachymyrmex: Weber, 1958b: 51.
• Combination in Mycetomoellerius: Solomon et al., 2019: 948.
• Status as species: Weber, 1958b: 51; Kempf, 1972b: 253; Bolton, 1995b: 421; Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2002: 680 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 262.
• Senior synonym of Mycetomoellerius wheeleri pakeelai: Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2002: 680.
• Senior synonym of Mycetomoellerius wheeleri: Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2002: 680.

Junior synonyms

• Mycetomoellerius wheeleri (Weber, 1937)
  Obsolete combination(s): Trachymyrmex wheeleri, Sericomyrmex wheeleri
• Mycetomoellerius wheeleri pakeelai (Weber, 1937)
  Obsolete combination(s): Trachymyrmex wheeleri pakeelai, Sericomyrmex wheeleri pakeelai

Obsolete combinations

• Sericomyrmex opulenta
• Trachymyrmex opulentus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1922. Ants from Honduras and Guatemala. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 61:1-54. PDF
• Mayhé-Nunes, A. J.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2002. Revisionary studies on the attine ant genus Trachymyrmex Forel. Part 1: definition of the genus and the opulentus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 40:667-698.
• Solomon, S. E.; Rabeling, C.; Sosa-Calvo, J.; Lopes, C. T.; Rodrigues, A.; Vasconcelos, H. L.; Bacci, M., Jr.; Mueller, U. G.; Schultz, T. R. 2019. The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher-attine’ ant agriculture. Systematic Entomology 44:939-956. 10.1111/syen.12370 PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1958b. Nomenclatural changes in Trachymyrmex (Hym.: Formicidae). Entomological News 69:49-55. PDF