• Status as species: Brown, 1964b: 192; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 36; Taylor, 1976a: 81; Dlussky, 1993b: 56; Dlussky, 1994a: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 384; Wetterer, 2002: 128 (error).
• Junior synonym of Strumigenys karawajewi: Brown, 1995b: 219; Bolton, 2000: 401.

Obsolete combinations

• Smithistruma dubia

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953g. Revisionary studies in the ant tribe Dacetini. American Midland Naturalist 50:1-137. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1964b. The ant genus Smithistruma: a first supplement to the World revision (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 89:183-200. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995b ("1994"). Trichoscapa karawajewi and its synonyms (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 101:219-220. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1993b. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, and the problem of island faunas formation. 2. Tribe Dacetini. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 72(6):52-65. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
• Taylor, R. W. 1976a. The ants of Rennell and Bellona Islands. Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands 7:73-90.
• Wetterer, J. K. 2002. Ants of Tonga. Pacific Science 56:125-135. PDF
• Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF