• Status as species: Emery, 1892f: 561 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 50; Crawley, 1922a: 440 (in text).
• Subspecies of Odontomachus ruficeps: Forel, 1893f: 459 (in text); Emery, 1911e: 115.
• Subspecies of Odontomachus haematodus: Wheeler, 1915h: 806.
• Junior synonym of Odontomachus ruficeps: Brown, 1976c: 105; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 36; Taylor, 1987a: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 295.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Crawley, W. C. 1922a. New ants from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)9:427-448. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1892f ("1891"). Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d'Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et août 1886. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 60:553-574. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1893f. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie et des Canaries. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 37:454-466. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. 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. 1915h. Hymenoptera. [In "Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia".]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39:805-823. PDF