• Lectotype designation: Snelling, 1976: 53.
• Snelling, 1976: 52 (q.m.)
• Combination in Myrmecocystus (Endiodioctes): Snelling, 1976: 50.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1908g: 354; Wheeler, 1910a: 571; Wheeler, 1912e: 173 (in key); Smith, 1951c: 855; Smith, 1958c: 151.
• Subspecies of Myrmecocystus melliger: Emery, 1925d: 239.
• Status as species: Snelling, 1975: 22; Snelling, 1976: 50 (redescription); Smith, 1979: 1446; Dlussky, 1981b: 48; Snelling, 1982b: 70; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 274; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 393.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmecocystus melliger depilis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M. 1981b. Desert ants. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 230 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1901d. I. Fourmis mexicaines récoltées par M. le professeur W.-M. Wheeler. II. A propos de la classification des fourmis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:123-141. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
• Snelling, R. R. 1975. [Untitled. Taxonomic actions attributed to R.R. Snelling.]. Pp. 22-23 in: Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
• Snelling, R. R. 1976. A revision of the honey ants, genus Myrmecocystus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science Bulletin 24:1-163. PDF
• Snelling, R. R. 1982b. A revision of the honey ants, genus Myrmecocystus, first supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 81:69-86. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1908g. Honey ants, with a revision of the American Myrmecocysti. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:345-397. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1912e. Additions to our knowledge of the ants of the genus Myrmecocystus Wesmael. Psyche (Cambridge) 19:172-181. PDF