• Subspecies of Leptomyrmex fragilis: Donisthorpe, 1941h: 60; Donisthorpe, 1943e: 454; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 187; Shattuck, 1994: 118; Bolton, 1995b: 234.
• Status as species: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 38 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Leptomyrmex contractus: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 38

Junior synonyms

• Leptomyrmex contractus Donisthorpe, 1947

Obsolete combinations

• Leptomyrmex fragilis melanoticus

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. 1941h. The ants of Japen Island, Dutch New Guinea (Hym., Formicidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 91:51-64. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1943e. The ants (Hym., Formicidae) of Waigeu Island, North Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:433-475. PDF
• Lucky, A.; Ward, P. S. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2688:1-67. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1934c. A second revision of the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:69-118. PDF