• [Allomerus octoarticulatus var. melanoticus Kempf, 1972b: 19; unavailable name (variety proposed after 1960).]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Ettershank, 1966: 113.
• Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bolton, 1995b: 61.
• Material referred to Allomerus octoarticulatus by Fernández, 2007a: 168

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• 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
• Fernández, F. 2007a. The myrmicine ant genus Allomerus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 29:159-175. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1942f. [Untitled. Allomerus decemarticulatus Mayr subsp. octoarticulatus Mayr var. melanoticus Wheeler & Mann, var. nov.]. Pp. 202-203 in: Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF