• Combination in Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma): Emery, 1915j: 59 (in text); Emery, 1924f: 216.
• Combination in Aeromyrma: Wheeler, 1922: 882.
• Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124.
• Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
• Status as species: Arnold, 1916: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 882; Emery, 1924f: 216; Arnold, 1926: 236; Weber, 1952a: 11 (in key); Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 300.
• Senior synonym of Carebara hewitti: Emery, 1924f: 216 (footnote); Arnold, 1926: 236; Bolton, 1995b: 300.

Junior synonyms

• Carebara hewitti (Santschi, 1919)
  Obsolete combination(s): Oligomyrmex hewitti

Obsolete combinations

• Solenopsis semilaevis

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1916. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part II. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:159-270. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1915j. Le formiche del genere Solenopsis abitanti l'Africa. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe di Scienze Fisiche (n.s.)19:57-66. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1901b. Südafrikanische Formiciden, gesammelt von Dr. Hans Brauns. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 16:1-30. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1952a. Studies on African Myrmicinae, I (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1548:1-32. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.