• [Misspelled as edentula by Emery, 1911e: 10.]
• Combination in Cerapachys (Syscia): Emery, 1911e: 10
• Combination in Ooceraea: Borowiec, 2016: 198
• Subspecies of Ooceraea australis: Emery, 1911e: 10; Wheeler, 1918a: 264.
• Junior synonym of Ooceraea australis: Brown, 1975: 22, 72; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 24; Taylor, 1987a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 142; Zhou et al., 2020: 142 (in key).
• [Note: all these authors give Ooceraea australis edentata as senior synonym, but Ooceraea australis has priority. The error arose from Brown’s assumption that Ooceraea australis was a junior homonym, which is not the case.]

Obsolete combinations

• Cerapachys australis edentatus
• Syscia australis edentata

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608:1-280. 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
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• 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
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1918a. The Australian ants of the ponerine tribe Cerapachyini. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 53:215-265. PDF
• Zhou, S. Y.; Chen, D. N.; Chen, Z. L. 2020. Discovery of novel Ooceraea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) species with 8-segmented antennae from China. Sociobiology 67 (2):139-143. 10.13102/sociobiology.v67i2.3740 PDF