• Junior synonym of Meranoplus pubescens: Mayr, 1876: 112; Dalla Torre, 1893: 137.
• Subspecies of Meranoplus pubescens: Forel, 1907d: 12; Forel, 1910b: 47; Forel, 1915b: 48; Emery, 1924f: 229.
• Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 67; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Taylor, 1990d: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Heterick, 2009: 152.

Obsolete combinations

• Meranoplus pubescens fenestratus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. PDF
• Smith, F. 1867. Descriptions of new species of Cryptoceridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3)5:523-528. 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. 1990d. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Caledonian ants of the genus Meranoplus Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). General and Applied Entomology 22:31-40. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.