• Lattke, 2004: 176 (q.)
• Combination in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 228
• Combination in Holcoponera Mayr, 1887: Camacho et al., 2022: 11.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1924c: 242 (in key); Wheeler, 1935g: 10; Brown, 1958g: 228, 303; Bolton, 1995b: 209; Lattke, 2004: 175 (redescription); Sarnat et al., 2013: 69; Camacho et al., 2022: 11.

Obsolete combinations

• Gnamptogenys malaensis
• Rhopalopone malaensis

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. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
• Camacho, G. P.; Franco, W.; Branstetter, M. G.; Pie, M. R.; Longino, J. T.; Schultz, T. R.; Feitosa, R. M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): a new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 5:1-20. 10.1093/isd/ixab026 PDF
• Lattke, J. E. 2004. A taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the ant genus Gnamptogenys Roger in Southeast Asia and Australasia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). University of California Publications in Entomology 122:1-266. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1924c. Ants of Krakatau and other islands in the Sunda Strait. Treubia 5:239-258. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.