- As Leptothorax versicolor versicolor: - Fontenla, 1995Fontenla, J.L. 1995. Variación geográfica y taxonomía de Leptothorax versicolor (Roger) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Avicennia 3:56-60. (distribution). - As Temnothorax versicolor versicolor:
Macromischa lugens Roger, 1863:188, Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218.:133, Cotype (Gundlach, No. 69). Synonymized with Leptothorax versicolor (Roger, 1863) by Baroni Urbani, 1978Baroni Urbani, C. 1978. Materiali per una revisione die Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 3:395-618.:523. - Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution); Wheeler, 1905Wheeler, W.M. 1905. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:79-135. (distribution); Wheeler, 1913Wheeler, W.M. 1913. The ants of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology LIV (17):477-505. (distribution); Mann, 1920Mann, W.M 1920. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42:403-439. (distribution); Aguayo, 1932Aguayo, C.G. 1932. Notes on West Indian ants. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27:215-227. (distribution); Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218. (distribution); Zayas, 1982Zayas, F. de 1982. Sección Oligoneoptera - Orden Hymenoptera - Orden Strepsiptera. Editorial Científico-Técnica, Ciudad de la Habana. 1-111. (distribution). - As Croesomyrmex lugens: - Wheeler, 1931Wheeler, W.M. 1931. New and little-known ants of the genera Macromischa, Creosomyrmex and Antillaemyrmex. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72:1-34. (distribution). - As Leptothorax versicolor lugens: - Fontenla, 1995Fontenla, J.L. 1995. Variación geográfica y taxonomía de Leptothorax versicolor (Roger) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Avicennia 3:56-60. (distribution), Leptothorax versicolor lugens (Roger, 1863) (comb. nov.). - As Temnothorax lugens:
Macromischa lugens nigra Santschi, 1931:273 - Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218. (distribution); Baroni Urbani, 1978Baroni Urbani, C. 1978. Materiali per una revisione die Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 3:395-618.:523 ( listed as synonym of Leptothorax versicolor (Roger, 1863)); Zayas, 1982Zayas, F. de 1982. Sección Oligoneoptera - Orden Hymenoptera - Orden Strepsiptera. Editorial Científico-Técnica, Ciudad de la Habana. 1-111. (distribution). - As Temnothorax lugens nigra: