• Combination in Rhoptromyrmex: Bolton, 1986a: 15.
• Combination in Tetramorium: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
• Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 186; Ettershank, 1966: 101; Kutter, 1968c: 203; Wilson, 1984b: 329; Bolton, 1986a: 15 (redescription); Kugler, 1988: 257; Bolton, 1995b: 378; Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010: 44; Borowiec, 2014: 151.

Obsolete combinations

• Hagioxenus schmitzi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1986a. A taxonomic and biological review of the tetramoriine ant genus Rhoptromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 11:1-17. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910a. Glanures myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:6-32. PDF
• Kugler, J. 1988. The zoogeography of Israel. 9. The zoogeography of social insects of Israel and Sinai. Monographiae Biologicae 62:251-275. PDF
• Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
• Vonshak, M.; Ionescu-Hirsch, A. 2010 ("2009"). A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1984b. Tropical social parasites in the ant genus Pheidole, with an analysis of the anatomical parasitic syndrome (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 31:316-334. PDF