• Combination in Tetramorium: Emery, 1901i: 567; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 469.
• Combination in Romblonella: Bolton, 1976: 294.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 434; Smith, 1871a: 326; Dalla Torre, 1893: 113; Emery, 1901i: 567; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 469; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 127; Bolton, 1976: 294; Bolton, 1995b: 382; General & Buenavente, 2015: 57 (redescription); General, 2016b: 118 (in key).
• Senior synonym of Romblonella grandinodis: Bolton, 1976: 294; Bolton, 1995b: 381; General & Buenavente, 2015: 57; General, 2016b: 113.

Junior synonyms

• Romblonella grandinodis Wheeler, 1935

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica opaca

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 34:281-379. 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
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
• Emery, C. 1901i. Formiciden von Celebes. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 14:565-580. PDF
• General, D. E. M. 2016b. Romblonella longinoi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a new species and first record of the genus from Sabah, Malaysia, with a key to the species of Romblonella Wheeler, 1935. Halteres 7:112-119. 10.5281/zenodo.55319 PDF
• General, D. E. M.; Buenavente, P. A. C. 2015. A second species of the ant genus Romblonella from the Philippines (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Halteres 6:56-62. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Smith, F. 1861b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 6:36-48. PDF
• Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF