• Combination in Atopula: Forel, 1913g: 197; Emery, 1924f: 243.
• Combination in Leptothorax: Forel, 1916: 459.
• Combination in Paratopula: Bolton, 1988b: 138.
• Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 698; Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 216.
• Subspecies of Paratopula ceylonica: Forel, 1913g: 197; Emery, 1924f: 243; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 119.
• Junior synonym of Paratopula ceylonica: Bolton, 1988b: 138; Bolton, 1995b: 312.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptothorax taylori

Citations

• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1988b. A review of Paratopula Wheeler, a forgotten genus of myrmicine ants (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 124:125-143. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:165-249. PDF
• Forel, A. 1903a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:679-715. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913g. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Formicidae II. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)79(6):183-202. PDF
• Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
• Rothney, G. A. J. 1903. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Barrackpore, Bengal. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903:93-116.