• Lectotype designation: Snelling, 1976: 138.
• Wheeler, 1912e: 180 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 213 (l.)
• Subspecies of Myrmecocystus mexicanus: Wheeler, 1910a: 571; Wheeler, 1912e: 179; Emery, 1925d: 239.
• Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 448; Smith, 1951c: 856; Cole, 1958b: 129 (in text); Smith, 1958c: 152; Cole, 1966b: 21 (in key); Beck et al., 1967: 71.
• Junior synonym of Myrmecocystus testaceus: Snelling, 1969b: 6 (in text); Snelling, 1976: 135; Smith, 1979: 1448; Snelling & George, 1979: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 275.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmecocystus mexicanus mojave

Citations

• Beck, D. E.; Allred, D. M.; Despain, W. J. 1967. Predaceous-scavenger ants in Utah. Great Basin Naturalist 27:67-78.
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Cole, A. C., Jr. 1958b ("1957"). Notes on western ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 65:129-131. PDF
• Cole, A. C., Jr. 1966b. Ants of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin. Biological Series 7(3):1-27. PDF
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• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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
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• 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
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