• Combination in †Emplastus: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 414.
• Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1920b: 87; Burnham, 1979: 112; Shattuck, 1994: 44; Bolton, 1995b: 173; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 414 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of †Emplastus emeryi: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 414.
• Senior synonym of †Emplastus ovigerus: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 414.

Junior synonyms

• †Emplastus emeryi Donisthorpe, 1920
• †Emplastus ovigerus (Cockerell, 1915)
  Obsolete combination(s): †Dolichoderus ovigerus

Obsolete combinations

• †Dolichoderus britannicus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Cockerell, T. D. A. 1915. British fossil insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 49:469-499. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Perfilieva, K. S. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. Pp. 410-438 in: Antropov, A. V.; Belokobylskij, S. A.; Compton, S. G.; Dlussky, G. M.; Khalaim, A. I.; Kolyada, V. A.; Kozlov, M. A.; Perfilieva, K. S.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104 (3-4):335-446. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1920b. British Oligocene ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)6:81-94. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF