[1] All the described specimens are of worker caste adult females which have been preserved as inclusions in transparent chunks of Burmese amber.

The amber specimen was recovered from deposits in Kachin State, 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Myitkyina in Myanmar.

[1] Engel and Grimaldi's 2005 type description of the new genus and species was published in the journal American Museum Novitates.

[3] In the type description, Engel and Grimaldi described Myanmyrma as a poneriod genus based on the constriction of the metasoma, with a possible relationship to either Ponerinae or Myrmeciinae.

The large body size and slender nature of the genus was likened to the extant genera Leptomyrmex and Oecophylla which are both arboreal.

[4] The short scape was again noted as a puzzling feature that prevented subfamily placement by Ward in a 2007 paper on the phylogeny of ants.