• Subspecies of Aenictus ceylonicus: Wheeler, 1929h: 58; Wheeler, 1930b: 94; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 11
• Junior synonym of Aenictus ceylonicus: Wilson, 1964a: 452; Bolton, 1995b: 59; Zhou, 2001a: 59; Shattuck, 2008c: 16; Terayama, 2009: 124.
• Status as species: Jaitrong & Yamane, 2013: 185 (redescription); Staab, 2015: 141 (in key)

Obsolete combinations

• Aenictus ceylonicus formosensis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913g. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Formicidae II. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)79(6):183-202. PDF
• Jaitrong, W.; Yamane, S. 2013. The Aenictus ceylonicus species group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Aenictinae) from Southeast Asia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31:165-233. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 2008c. Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr). Zootaxa 1926:1-19. PDF
• Staab, M. 2015. Aenictus hoelldobleri sp. n., a new species of the Aenictus ceylonicus group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from China, with a key to the Chinese members of the group. ZooKeys 516:137-155. PDF
• Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929h. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24:27-64. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1930b. Formosan ants collected by Dr. R. Takahashi. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 11:93-106. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1964a. The true army ants of the Indo-Australian area (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae). Pacific Insects 6:427-483. PDF
• Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF