• Status as species: Clark, 1934a: 14.
• Junior synonym of Myrmecia picta: Mayr, 1876: 94; Dalla Torre, 1893: 21; Emery, 1911e: 21.
• Junior synonym of Myrmecia urens: Clark, 1943: 103; Clark, 1951: 190; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; Taylor, 1987a: 46; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1631; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Citations

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