Melophorus cerasinoniger Heterick et al., 2017: 335, fig. 78 (s.w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia, Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype minor worker. Primary type locality: Australia: South Australia, Tailem Bend, 26.i.1969 (B.B. Lowery). Primary type depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 11 paratype major workers, 2 paratype media workers, 4 paratype minor workers. Secondary type localities: 4 paratype major, 2 paratype minor workers with same data as holotype, 2 paratype major, 1 paratype media, 2 paratype minor workers South Australia, Blyth, 28.xi.1957 (B.B. Lowery), 3 paratype major workers Victoria, Big Desert, 10.xii.1979 (A.N. Andersen), 2 paratype major workers South Australia, 7 km. NW Morgan, 16.xii.1976, (6) (P.J.M. Greenslade), 1 paratype minor worker South Australia, Mundoora Nat. Park, 16.i.1975 (P.J.M. Greenslade). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, SAMA.