• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1911g: 250; Emery, 1911e: 115.
• Subspecies of Odontomachus ruficeps: Forel, 1910b: 10.
• Junior synonym of Odontomachus cephalotes: Brown, 1976a: 103
• Status as species: Clark, 1928b: 169; Brown, 1978b: 283; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 36; Taylor, 1987a: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 297.

Obsolete combinations

• Odontomachus ruficeps turneri

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. 1976a. Cladarogenys genus nov. Pilot Register of Zoology Card No. 33:1-2.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1978b ("1977"). A supplement to the world revision of Odontomachus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 84:281-285. PDF
• Clark, J. 1928b. Ants from North Queensland. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 45:169-171. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911g. Formicidae. Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1907 et 1909 sous les auspices de Dr. H. A. Lorentz. Nova Guinea 9:249-259. PDF
• Forel, A. 1900b. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltés par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.-J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44:54-77. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. 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.