• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Status as species: Brown, 1958h: 45; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 103; Taylor, 1987a: 16; Bolton, 1995b: 113; Don, 2007: 193; McArthur, 2012: 144.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus newzealandicus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50. PDF
• Don, W. 2007. Ants of New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 239 pp.
• Donisthorpe, H. 1940a. Descriptions of new species of ants (Hym., Formicidae) from various localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)5:39-48. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF
• Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF