• Wheeler, 1934c: 92 (m.)
• Subspecies of Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus: Wheeler, 1934c: 92; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 104; Taylor, 1987a: 35; Shattuck, 1994: 116; Bolton, 1995b: 234.
• Status as species: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 26 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus brunneiceps: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 26.
• Senior synonym of Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus venustus: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 26.

Junior synonyms

• Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus brunneiceps Wheeler, 1934
• Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus venustus Wheeler, 1934

Obsolete combinations

• Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus cnemidatus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Lucky, A.; Ward, P. S. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2688:1-67. 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
• 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.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1915e. The Australian honey-ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51:255-286. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1934c. A second revision of the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:69-118. PDF