• Lectotype designation: Sorger, 2011a: 151.
• Combination in Leptothorax: Forel, 1916: 458 (in text).
• Combination in Leptothorax (Goniothorax): Emery, 1924f: 250.
• Combination in Vombisidris: Bolton, 1995b: 240 (provisional); Bolton, 2003: 272 (provisional).
• Combination in Vombisidris: Sorger, 2011a: 151.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 250; Bolton, 1995b: 240; Bolton, 2003: 272; Sorger, 2011a: 151 (redescription); Xu & Yu, 2012: 1500 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

• Atopula jacobsoni

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1915a. Fauna Simalurensis. Hymenoptera Aculeata, Fam. Formicidae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 58:22-43. PDF
• Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
• Sorger, D. M. 2011a. Redescription and history of Vombisidris jacobsoni (Forel, 1915) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118:149-155. PDF
• Xu, Z.; Yu, N. 2012. Vombisidris tibeta, a new myrmicine ant species from Tibet, China with a key to the known species of Vombisidris Bolton of the world. Sociobiology 59 (3):1495-1507. PDF