• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 887; Emery, 1924f: 225; Bolton, 1981a: 69 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 83.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1981a. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 42:43-81. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1915c. Nouvelles fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 84:244-282. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.