• Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 105.
• Junior synonym of Megalomyrmex silvestrii: Kempf & Brown, 1968: 97; Kempf, 1972b: 140; Brandão, 1990b: 443; Bolton, 1995b: 249; Longino, 2010: 54; Boudinot et al., 2013: 59.

Citations

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