• Lectotype designation: Chaul, 2022: 10.
• Chaul, 2022: 12 (q.m.); Jacintho et al., 2023: 443 (l.k.)
• Combination in Octostruma: Brown, 1949f: 92
• Combination in Eurhopalothrix: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 211.
• Junior synonym of Eurhopalothrix gravis: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 211; Kempf, 1972b: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 189; Longino, 2013a: 120.
• Status as species: Borgmeier, 1927c: 121; Brown, 1949h: 92; Chaul, 2022: 10 (redescription); Jacintho et al., 2023: 443.

Obsolete combinations

• Rhopalothrix reichenspergeri

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949f. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini. I. Fauna of Japan, China and Taiwan. Mushi 20:1-25. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949h. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini: IV. Some genera properly excluded from the Dacetini, with the establishment of the Basicerotini new tribe. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 75:83-96. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
• Chaul, J. C. M. 2022. Redescription of Eurhopalothrix reichenspergeri (Santschi, 1923) stat. rev. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Brazilian Atlantic Forest endemic species. Zootaxa 5182 (1):1-20. 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.1.1 PDF
• Jacintho, G. D.; Teixeira, G. A.; Lopes, D. M.; Lino-Neto, J.; Serrão, J. E. 2023. Addendum to the redescription of Eurhopalothrix reichenspergeri (Santschi, 1923) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): larval morphology, cytogenetic and sperm morphometry data. Zootaxa 5352 (3):443-446. 10.11646/zootaxa.5352.3.9 PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Longino, J. T. 2013a. A review of the Central American and Caribbean species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf, 1961 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to New World species. Zootaxa 3693:101-151. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1923g. Descriptions de quelques nouvelles fourmis du Brésil. Revista do Museu Paulista 13:1255-1264. PDF