• Combination in Melophorus: Forel, 1902j: 483.
• Combination in Prolasius: Wheeler, 1935c: 71.
• Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 12; McAreavey, 1947: 23 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 144; Taylor, 1987a: 65; Taylor, 1992a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 369.
• Senior synonym of Prolasius niger: Taylor, 1992a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 369.
• Senior synonym of Prolasius depressiceps similis: Taylor, 1992a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 369.

Junior synonyms

• Prolasius depressiceps similis McAreavey, 1947
• Prolasius niger Clark, 1934

Obsolete combinations

• Formica nitidissima

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.
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. PDF
• McAreavey, J. 1947. New species of the genera Prolasius Forel and Melophorus Lubbock (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 15:7-27. 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. 1992a. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:57-69. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Cambridge) 42:68-72. PDF