• Combination in Leptothorax (Macromischa): Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 438.
• Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Status as species: Brown, 1959e: 73; Kempf, 1972b: 136; Alayo, 1974: 17 (in key); Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 438 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 351; Bolton, 1995b: 237; Fontenla Rizo, 1997b: 50; Fontenla, 2001: 17 (in key); Bolton, 2003: 271.
• Senior synonym of Temnothorax opalina: Brown, 1959e: 73; Kempf, 1972b: 136; Fontenla Rizo, 1997b: 50.

Junior synonyms

• Temnothorax opalina (Wheeler, 1937)
  Obsolete combination(s): Macromischa opalina

Obsolete combinations

• Macromischa darlingtoni

Citations

• Alayo, P. 1974. Introducción al estudio de los Himenópteros de Cuba. Superfamilia Formicoidea. Serie Biológica. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 53:1-58. PDF
• Baroni Urbani, C. 1978b. Materiali per una revisione dei Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 3:395-618. 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
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1959e. Synonymy in the ant genus Macromischa Roger. Florida Entomologist 42:73-74. PDF
• Fontenla Rizo, J. L. 1997b. Notas y sinónimos nuevos de Leptothorax (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Cuba. Avicennia 6/7:47-53. PDF
• Fontenla, J. L. 2001. Claves para las especies cubanas del taxon Macromischa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptothorax). Cocuyo (Havana) 11:15-17. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1937b. Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 81:439-465. PDF