• [Also described as new by Westwood, 1847a: 238.]
• Status as species: Smith, 1859c: 10; Roger, 1863b: 41; Mayr, 1863a: 394; André, 1884f: 539; Dalla Torre, 1893: 8; Emery, 1895l: 747; Emery, 1910b: 31; Arnold, 1915: 141; Wheeler, 1922: 753; Bolton, 1995b: 59.

Citations

• André, Ern. 1884f. [Untitled. Meranoplus Magrettii, n. sp.]. P. 543 in: Magretti, P. 1884. Risultati di raccolte imenotterologiche nell'Africa Orientale. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 21:523-636.
• Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
• Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
• Smith, F. 1859c. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VII. Dorylidae and Thynnidae. London: British Museum, 76 pp. PDF
• Westwood, J. O. 1845. Description of a new species of the Hymenopterous genus Aenictus, belonging to the Dorylidae. Journal and Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1840-1846:85. PDF
• Westwood, J. O. 1847a. Descriptions of a new Dorylideous insect from South Africa, belonging to the genus Aenictus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4:237-238.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.