• Lectotype designation: Mackay & Dash, 2016: 8.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Ischnomyrmex): Forel, 1899e: 60.
• Combination in Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma): Emery, 1915k: 71.
• Status as species: Forel, 1899b: 60; Emery, 1915k: 71; Emery, 1921c: 65; Kempf, 1972b: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 71; Mackay & Dash, 2016: 8; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 306 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Ischnomyrmex mexicanus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1915k. Definizione del genere Aphaenogaster e partizione di esso in sottogeneri. Parapheidole e Novomessor nn. gg. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe di Scienze Fisiche (n.s.)19:67-75. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899e. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:57-80. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mackay, W. P.; Dash, S. T. 2016. A revision of the phalangium species complex of the ant genus Aphaenogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 142:1-22. 10.3157/061.142.0108 PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
• Pergande, T. 1896. Mexican Formicidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (2)5:858-896. PDF