• Combination in Leptothorax: Brown, 1971a: 4.
• Combination in Nesomyrmex: Bolton, 2003: 272.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1982: 332 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 245; Bolton, 2003: 272; Mbanyana & Robertson, 2008: 38; Hita Garcia et al., 2017: 27 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Limnomyrmex stramineus

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1948. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 8. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:213-250. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmicine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 45:307-370. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• 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
• Hita Garcia, F.; Mbanyana, N.; Audisio, T. L.; Alpert, G. D. 2017. Taxonomy of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in the Afrotropical region, with a review of current species groups and description of a new species of the N. angulatus group from Mozambique. European Journal of Taxonomy 258:1-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.258 PDF
• Mbanyana, N.; Robertson, H. G. 2008. Review of the ant genus Nesomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in southern Africa. African Natural History 4:35-55. PDF