Taxonomic history
[First available use of Myrmecocystus albicans ruber rosenhaueri Emery, 1906; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Agosti, 1990b PDF: 1494).].As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1912f PDF: 99; Stitz, 1917 PDF: 348; Emery, 1925d PDF: 263; Santschi, 1929b PDF: 61 (in key).Subspecies of Cataglyphis albicans: Schmitz, 1950 PDF: 13.Status as species: Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 85; Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 92 (in key); Agosti, 1990b PDF: 1494; Tinaut & Plaza, 1990 PDF: 192; Bolton, 1995b: 137; Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 59; Lebas et al., 2016: 160.