• [Misspelled as alata by Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973c: 211.]
• [Note: Epopostruma alata Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973c: 211, is a subsequent misspelling of Epopostruma alinodis Forel, 1913h and therefore does not enter into homonymy.]
• Crozier, 1968c: 88 (k.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973c: 211 (l.)
• Combination in Clarkistruma: Brown, 1948e: 124.
• Combination in Colobostruma: Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 281.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 330; Brown, 1948e: 124; Brown, 1954b: 466; Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 281; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 59; Taylor, 1987a: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 146; Shattuck, 2000: 34 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Epopostruma alinodis

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. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 74:101-129. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954b. A preliminary report on dacetine ant studies in Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:465-471. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr.; Wilson, E. O. 1959b. The evolution of the dacetine ants. Quarterly Review of Biology 34:278-294. PDF
• Crozier, R. H. 1968c. The chromosomes of three Australian dacetine ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 75:87-90. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913h. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lae, Froggatt etc. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 49:173-195. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 2000. Genus Colobostruma. Genus Mesostruma. Genus Epopostruma. Pp. 31-67 in: Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
• 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, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1973c. The ant larvae of the tribes Basicerotini and Dacetini: second supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 49:207-214. PDF