• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 219.
• Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex anceps papuanus: Smith, 1957a: 347.
• Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex anceps: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 78; Shattuck, 1994: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 217; Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 40.

Obsolete combinations

• Prenolepis discoidalis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1947c ("1946"). Ants from New Guinea, including new species and a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)13:577-595. PDF
• Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. 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
• Smith, M. R. 1957a ("1956"). New synonymy of a New Guinea ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 58:347. PDF
• Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF