• Combination in Cyphomyrmex (Trachymyrmex): Emery, 1924f: 346.
• Combination in Trachymyrmex: Gallardo, 1916c: 242; Kempf, 1972b: 254.
• Combination in Mycetomoellerius: Solomon et al., 2019: 948.
• Status as species: Forel, 1899b: 36; Wheeler, 1911i: 249 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 346; Kempf, 1972b: 254; Bolton, 1995b: 421.

Obsolete combinations

• Atta squamulifera
• Trachymyrmex squamulifer

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1896g. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. XVII-XXV. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 28:33-107. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Gallardo, A. 1916c. Notas acerca de la hormiga Trachymyrmex pruinosus Emery. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 28:241-252. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Solomon, S. E.; Rabeling, C.; Sosa-Calvo, J.; Lopes, C. T.; Rodrigues, A.; Vasconcelos, H. L.; Bacci, M., Jr.; Mueller, U. G.; Schultz, T. R. 2019. The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher-attine’ ant agriculture. Systematic Entomology 44:939-956. 10.1111/syen.12370 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1911i. Descriptions of some new fungus-growing ants from Texas, with Mr. C. G. Hartman's observations on their habits. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 19:245-255. PDF