• Bernard, 1953b: 239 (m.)
• Combination in Aneleus (Aneleus): Emery, 1924f: 215.
• Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124.
• Combination in Carebara: Fischer et al., 2014: 94.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 881; Emery, 1924f: 214; Bernard, 1953b: 239; Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 300; Fischer et al., 2014: 94 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Carebara punctata: Fischer et al., 2014: 94

Junior synonyms

• Carebara punctata (Karavaiev, 1931)
  Obsolete combination(s): Aneleus punctatus

Obsolete combinations

• Aneleus silvestrii

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. 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
• 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
• Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.