• Combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 112.
• Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 12.
• Subspecies of Myrmecia michaelseni: Clark, 1943: 112 (redescription); Clark, 1951: 206 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 12; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata, 1991a: 361.
• Status as species: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1640 (in key), 1663; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
• Senior synonym of Myrmecia michaelseni overbecki: Clark, 1943: 112; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1663; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Junior synonyms

• Myrmecia michaelseni overbecki Viehmeyer, 1924

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmecia michaelseni queenslandica

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 13:83-149. PDF
• Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
• Ogata, K. 1991a. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a review of the species groups and their phylogenetic relationships (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Systematic Entomology 16:353-381. PDF
• Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Journal of Natural History 25:1623-1673. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.