• Combination in Forelius: Guerrero, 2021: 433.
• Subspecies of Forelius heyeri: Kempf, 1972b: 247; Zolessi et al., 1988: 7; Shattuck, 1994: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 401.
• Junior synonym of Forelius heyeri: Guerrero, 2021: 433.

Obsolete combinations

• Tapinoma heyeri risii

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Forel, A. 1912i. Formicides néotropiques. Part V. 4me sous-famille Dolichoderinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:33-58. PDF
• Guerrero, R. J. 2021. Transfer of two South American ant species from Tapinoma Foerster 1850 to Forelius Emery 1888 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Zootaxa 4920 (3):428–438. 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.8 PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
• Zolessi, L. C. de; Abenante, Y. P. de; Philippi, M. E. 1988 ("1987"). Lista sistemática de las especies de Formícidos del Uruguay. Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 11(165):1-9.