• Clark, 1927: 36 (q.)
• Subspecies of Myrmecia forficata: Emery, 1911e: 20; Wheeler, 1933b: 20.
• Status as species: Clark, 1927: 36; Clark, 1951: 98 (redescription).
• Junior synonym of Myrmecia forficata: Brown, 1953j: 28; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 10; Taylor, 1987a: 43; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1629; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmecia forficata rubra

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953j. Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 111:1-35. PDF
• Clark, J. 1927. The ants of Victoria. Part III. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 44:33-40. PDF
• Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
• Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Journal of Natural History 25:1623-1673. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1933b. Mermis parasitism in some Australian and Mexican ants. Psyche (Cambridge) 40:20-31. PDF