• [Misspelled as nigrus by Taylor, 1987a: 25].
• Subspecies of Dolichoderus ypsilon: Clark, 1930b: 259 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 95; Taylor, 1987a: 25; Shattuck, 1994: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 175; Heterick, 2009: 46.
• Status as species: Shattuck & Marsden, 2013: 125 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Dolichoderus ypsilon niger

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Clark, J. 1930b. The Australian ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Formicidae). Subgenus Hypoclinea Mayr. Australian Zoologist 6:252-268. PDF
• Crawley, W. C. 1922e. New ants from Australia (concluded from vol. ix. p. 449). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)10:16-36.
• Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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
• Shattuck, S. O.; Marsden, S. 2013. Australian species of the ant genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3716 (2):101-143. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.