• Status as species: Wheeler, 1934i: 15; Wheeler, 1935g: 33; Brown, 1948e: 123.
• Junior synonym of Strumigenys emmae: Brown, 1949c: 48; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 42; Smith, 1979: 1409; Bolton, 1983: 400; Terayama & Kubota, 1989: 791; Bolton, 1995b: 377; Bolton, 2000: 951; Blard et al., 2003: 132; Imai et al., 2003: 85; Tang & Guénard, 2023: 50.

Obsolete combinations

• Epitritus wheeleri

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1983. The Afrotropical dacetine ants (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 46:267-416. PDF
• 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. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 74:101-129. PDF
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• Donisthorpe, H. 1916b. Epitritus wheeleri, n. sp., an ant new to science; with notes on the genus Epitritus, Emery. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 28:121-122. PDF
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• Tang, K. L.; Guénard, B. 2023. Further additions to the knowledge of Strumigenys (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) within South East Asia, with the descriptions of 20 new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 907:1-144. 10.5852/ejt.2023.907.2327 PDF
• Terayama, M.; Kubota, S. 1989. The ant tribe Dacetini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Taiwan, with descriptions of three new species. Japanese Journal of Entomology 57:778-792. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1934i. Revised list of Hawaiian ants. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 10(21):1-21.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
• Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF