• Fischer et al., 2014: 82 (s.)
• Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124.
• Combination in Carebara: Fischer et al., 2014: 82.
• Subspecies of Carebara polita: Arnold, 1952a: 460 (in text); Bolton, 1995b: 299.
• Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 124; Fischer et al., 2014: 82 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Sporocleptes nicotianae

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1948. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 8. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:213-250. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1952a. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fischer, G.; Azorsa, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438:57-112. PDF