• Combination in Myrmecina: Brown, 1971a: 1
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 28; Brown, 1971a: 1; Taylor, 1980d: 122 (redescription); Dlussky, 1994a: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 274; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 91.

Obsolete combinations

• Archaeomyrmex cacabau

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. 1971a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part IV. Some genera of subfamily Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Breviora 365:1-5. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
• Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1980d. The rare Fijian ant Myrmecina (=Archaeomyrmex) cacabau (Mann) rediscovered (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). New Zealand Entomologist 7:122-123. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.