• Lectotype designation: Taylor, 1990d: 34.
• Subspecies of Meranoplus hirsutus: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 67; Taylor, 1987a: 39.
• Status as species: Taylor, 1990d: 39; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Heterick, 2009: 155.

Obsolete combinations

• Meranoplus hirsutus rugosus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Crawley, W. C. 1922a. New ants from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)9:427-448. PDF
• Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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.