• Combination in Lepisiota: Bolton, 1995b: 226.
• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 209; Bolton, 1995b: 226.

Obsolete combinations

• Acantholepis aurea

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
• Karavaiev, V. 1933a ("1932"). Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet, VII. Konowia 11:305-320. PDF
• Kostyuk, Yu. A. 1976. Katalog typov murav’ev kollektsii V.A. Karavaeva khranyashiesya v Institute Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR (chast’ 1). Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya (Kiev) 36:91-106.
• Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2025. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 3. Formicinae. Zootaxa 5613 (3):469-499. 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.3.3 PDF