• Macromischa in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 19 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 120 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e: 185 [Myrmicinae].
• Macromischa in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Forel, 1899d: 56; Wheeler, 1910a: 139.
• Macromischa in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Macromischa in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 244; Wheeler, 1922: 664; Emery, 1924f: 245; subsequent authors.
• Macromischa as genus: Mayr, 1863a: 428; Roger, 1863b: 28; Mayr, 1865: 19; Mayr, 1868b: 82; Dalla Torre, 1893: 120; Emery, 1895l: 769; Emery, 1896d: 103; Emery, 1896e: 185; Mayr, 1902: 292; Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Emery, 1914e: 42; Wheeler, 1922: 664; Emery, 1924f: 245; Wheeler, 1931b: 3, 31; Wheeler, 1937b: 449; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 659; Kempf, 1972b: 135; Smith, 1979: 1390; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 257; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14.
• Macromischa as subgenus of Leptothorax: Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 398; Mackay, 2000: 288 (in key).
• Macromischa as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Brown, 1973b: 181 [provisional]; Snelling, 1986: 154; Brandão, 1991: 349; Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 34.
• Macromischa as junior synonym of Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 252, 271.

Obsolete classifications

• Leptothorax (Macromischa)
• Macromischa (Macromischa)

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
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