• Combination in Monomorium: Mayr, 1886c: 363.
• Combination in Monomorium (Notomyrmex): Emery, 1922c: 169.
• Combination in Chelaner: Sparks et al., 2019: 232.
• Status as species: Hutton, 1881: 114; Forel, 1892c: 340; Dalla Torre, 1893: 67; Forel, 1905d: 354; Emery, 1922c: 169; Wheeler, 1935g: 25.
• Junior synonym of Chelaner antarcticus: Brown, 1958h: 29; Ettershank, 1966: 96; Taylor, 1987a: 21; Bolton, 1995b: 265.

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium nitidum
• Tetramorium nitidum

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
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Forel, A. 1892c. Die Ameisen Neu-Seelands. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 8:331-343. PDF
• Forel, A. 1905d. A revision of the species of the Formicidae (ants) of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 37:353-355. PDF
• Hutton, F. W. 1881. Catalogues of the New Zealand Diptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera; with description of the species. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey of New Zealand. New Zealand: Wellington, 132 pp.
• Mayr, G. 1886c. Notizen über die Formiciden-Sammlung des British Museum in London. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36:353-368. PDF
• Smith, F. 1876b. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects of New Zealand, collected by C. M. Wakefield, Esq., principally in the neighbourhood of Canterbury. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876:473-487. PDF
• Sparks, K. S.; Andersen, A. N.; Austin, A. D. 2019. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. Invertebrate Systematics 33:225-236. 10.1071/ISI6080 PDF
• 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.