• Combination in Leptogenys: Emery, 1911e: 102
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 46; Emery, 1911e: 102; Wheeler, 1922: 790; Bolton, 1975a: 272 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 233.

Obsolete combinations

• Lobopelta sulcinoda

Citations

• André, Ern. 1892a. Matériaux myrmécologiques. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 11:45-56. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1975a. A revision of the ant genus Leptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian region with a review of the Malagasy species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 31:235-305. PDF
• 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. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.