• Forel, 1886h: 213 (s.); Forel, 1910b: 60 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 129 (l.)
• Status as species: Forel, 1886h: 213; Dalla Torre, 1893: 175; Wheeler, 1908g: 387; Forel, 1910b: 60; Forel, 1915b: 87; Emery, 1925d: 12; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 122; Taylor, 1987a: 37; Bolton, 1995b: 250; Heterick et al., 2017: 134 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Melophorus cowlei: Clark, 1930c: 22; Heterick et al., 2017: 134.

Junior synonyms

• Melophorus cowlei (Froggatt, 1896)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus cowlei

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Clark, J. 1930c. New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)43:2-25. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1886h. Études myrmécologiques en 1886. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:131-215. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
• Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
• Heterick, B. E.; Castalanelli, M.; Shattuck, S. O. 2017. Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 700:1-420. 10.3897/zookeys.700.11784 PDF
• Lubbock, J. 1883. Observations on ants, bees, and wasps.- Part X. With a description of a new genus of honey-ant. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 17:41-52. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1953c. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:126-171. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1908g. Honey ants, with a revision of the American Myrmecocysti. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:345-397. PDF