• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 205 (l.)
• Combination in Diodontolepis: Wheeler, 1920: 53.
• Combination in Melophorus: Emery, 1925d: 12.
• Combination in Notoncus: Brown, 1955d: 493.
• Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 12; Clark, 1934c: 64; Brown, 1955d: 493; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 126; Taylor, 1987a: 48; Bolton, 1995b: 293.

Obsolete combinations

• Melophorus spinisquamis

Citations

• André, Ern. 1896d. Fourmis nouvelles d'Asie et d'Australie. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 15:251-265. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1955d. A revision of the Australian ant genus Notoncus Emery, with notes on the other genera of Melophorini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113:471-494. PDF
• Clark, J. 1934c. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:48-73. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61:205-222. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1920. The subfamilies of Formicidae, and other taxonomic notes. Psyche (Cambridge) 27:46-55. PDF