• Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 8, 16 (q.m.)
• Combination in Mycetophylax: Kempf, 1962b: 34.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1887: 556 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 150; Emery, 1924f: 341; Weber, 1940b: 408 (in key); Kempf, 1962b: 34 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 268; Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 7 (redescription); Cardoso et al., 2014: 380; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017: 9.
• Senior synonym of Mycetophylax brittoni: Kempf, 1962b: 34; Kempf, 1972b: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 268; Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 7.
• Senior synonym of Mycetophylax brittoni littoralis: Kempf, 1962b: 34; Kempf, 1972b: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 268; Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 8.

Junior synonyms

• Mycetophylax brittoni (Wheeler, 1907)
  Obsolete combination(s): Myrmicocrypta brittoni
• Mycetophylax brittoni littoralis Weber, 1937

Obsolete combinations

• Cyphomyrmex conformis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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• Klingenberg, C.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2009. Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini). Zootaxa 2052:1-31. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1884. [Untitled. Descriptions of eight new species.]. Pp. 31-38 in: Radoszkowsky, O. 1884. Fourmis de Cayenne Française. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 18:30-39. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1887. Südamerikanische Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 37:511-632. PDF
• Sosa-Calvo, J.; Ješovnik, A.; Vasconcelos, H. L.; Bacci, M., Jr.; Schultz, T. R. 2017. Rediscovery of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant "Mycetosoritis" asper Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for taxonomy, phylogeny, and the evolution of agriculture in ants. PLoS ONE 12 (5):29 pp. e0176498. 10.1371/journal.pone.0176498 PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1940b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VI. Key to Cyphomyrmex, new Attini and a new guest ant. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 11:406-427. PDF