• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976a: 48 (l.); Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 11 (w.m.)
• Combination in Centromyrmex: Brown, 1963a: 10
• Status as species: Forel, 1913i: 347; Wheeler, 1922: 766; Brown, 1963a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 140; Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 11 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Centromyrmex rufigaster: Brown, 1963a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 140; Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 11.

Junior synonyms

• Centromyrmex rufigaster (Arnold, 1916)
  Obsolete combination(s): Glyphopone rufigaster

Obsolete combinations

• Glyphopone bequaerti

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2008c. Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1929:1-37. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1963a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora 190:1-10. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913b. Formicides du Congo Belge récoltés par MM. Bequaert, Luja, etc. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 2:306-351. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913i. Quelques fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:347-359. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1976a. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Ponerinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 102:41-64. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.