• Replacement name for Manica mutica Emery, 1895d. [Junior primary homonym of Messor muticus Nylander, 1849.]
• Status as species: Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 143; Ward, 2005: 66; He et al., 2024: 384; Zharkov et al., 2024: 13.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• He, Y.; Chen, Z.; Du, C. 2024. Review of the ant genus Manica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a new record of the genus in China and description of a new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 97:379-398. [online early] 10.3897/jhr.97.111418 PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
• Zharkov, D. M.; Dubovikoff, D. A.; Fu, Y.; Abakumov, E. V. 2024. Manica shanyii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) is not Manica. Ecologica Montenegrina 78:11-16. [online early] 10.37828/em.2024.78.2 PDF