• Forel, 1886h: 213 (s.); Forel, 1910b: 60 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 129 (l.).
• Status as species: Forel, 1886f: 213; Dalla Torre, 1893: 175; Forel, 1910b: 60; Forel, 1915b: 87; Emery, 1925b: 12; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 122; 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

• 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
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• Forel, A. 1886h. Études myrmécologiques en 1886. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:131-215. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
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• 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
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• 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
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• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1953c. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:126-171. PDF
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