• Clark, 1925b: 138 (m.)
• Status as species: Roger, 1861a: 48; Roger, 1863b: 20; Mayr, 1863a: 394; Mayr, 1886c: 359; Dalla Torre, 1893: 13.
• Subspecies of Amblyopone australis: Froggatt, 1906: 8; Forel, 1910b: 2; Emery, 1911e: 25; Clark, 1925b: 138; Wheeler, 1927c: 10.
• Junior synonym of Amblyopone australis: Brown, 1958h: 13; Brown, 1960a: 167; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 19; Taylor, 1987a: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 62.

Obsolete combinations

• Amblyopone obscura

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• 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
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• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. 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
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1927c. Ants of the genus Amblyopone Erichson. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62:1-29. PDF