• Combination in Erebomyrma: Wilson, 1986b: 61.
• Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 299.
• Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 124; Kempf, 1972b: 172; Brandão, 1991: 343; Bolton, 1995b: 299.
• Junior synonym of Carebara urichi: Fernández, 2004a: 205; Fischer et al., 2014: 99.

Obsolete combinations

• Erebomyrma nevermanni

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. PDF
• Fischer, G.; Azorsa, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438:57-112. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1926. Some new neotropical ants. Psyche (Cambridge) 33:97-107. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1986b. Caste and division of labor in Erebomyrma, a genus of dimorphic ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Insectes Sociaux 33:59-69. PDF