• Combination in Eurhopalothrix: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 230
• Taylor, 1980b: 236 (w.)
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 329; Brown, 1949h: 93; Brown & Kempf, 1960: 230 (redescription); Taylor, 1968c: 335 (in key); Taylor, 1980b: 235 (redescription); Taylor, 1990c: 403 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 189; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 76.
• Senior synonym of Eurhopalothrix elegans: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 230; Taylor, 1980b: 235; Bolton, 1995b: 189.

Junior synonyms

• Eurhopalothrix elegans (Mann, 1921)
  Obsolete combination(s): Rhopalothrix elegans

Obsolete combinations

• Rhopalothrix emeryi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949h. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini: IV. Some genera properly excluded from the Dacetini, with the establishment of the Basicerotini new tribe. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 75:83-96. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1912o. Einige neue und interessante Ameisenformen aus Sumatra etc. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Supplement 15("Erster Band"):51-78. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1968c. Notes on the Indo-Australian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 16:333-348. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1980b. Australian and Melanesian ants of the genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf - notes and new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:229-239. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1990c. New Asian ants of the tribe Basicerotini, with an on-line computer interactive key to the twenty-six known Indo-Australian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4:397-425. PDF