• Combination in Dolichoderus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 162.
• Combination in Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea): Emery, 1894d: 228.
• Combination in Hypoclinea: Kempf, 1972b: 120.
• Combination in Dolichoderus: Shattuck, 1992c: 77.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 162; Emery, 1913a: 12; Kempf, 1972b: 120.
• Junior synonym of Dolichoderus abruptus: MacKay, 1993b: 32; Shattuck, 1994: 40; Bolton, 1995b: 177; Ortiz & Fernández, 2011: 49.

Obsolete combinations

• Hypoclinea ursus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 26:137-241. PDF
• Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• MacKay, W. P. 1993b. A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 22:1-148. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53:484-517. PDF
• Ortiz, C. M.; Fernández, F. 2011. Hormigas del género Dolichoderus Lund (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) en Colombia. (Monografías de Fauna de Colombia 3). Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 116 pp. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181. 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