• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Subspecies of Colobopsis schmeltzi: Emery, 1925d: 144; Wheeler, 1935g: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 106; McArthur, 2012: 188.
• Status as species: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 61.
• Senior synonym of Colobopsis schmeltzi trotteri: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 61.

Junior synonyms

• Colobopsis schmeltzi trotteri (Mann, 1921)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus schmeltzi trotteri

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus kadi
• Camponotus schmeltzi kadi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.