• Combination in Octostruma: Brown, 1949f: 92
• Status as species: Brown, 1949h: 92.
• Junior synonym of Octostruma balzani: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 194; Kempf, 1972b: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 293; Longino, 2013b: 20.

Obsolete combinations

• Rhopalothrix equilatera

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. 1949f. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini. I. Fauna of Japan, China and Taiwan. Mushi 20:1-25. PDF
• 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
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Longino, J. T. 2013b. A revision of the ant genus Octostruma Forel, 1912 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 3699:1-61. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1934a. Notes on neotropical ants, including the descriptions of new forms. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 4:22-59. PDF