• Wheeler, 1928d: 116 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 185 (l.); Imai & Yosida, 1965: 64 (k.).
• Combination in Ochetellus: Shattuck, 1992a: 17.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1906h: 318; Yano, 1910a: 420; Emery, 1913a: 25; Wheeler, 1928d: 116; Wheeler, 1929g: 8; Wheeler, 1930k: 72; Azuma, 1950a: 35; Azuma, 1951: 88; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 190; Azuma, 1953: 3; Onoyama, 1980a: 199; Morisita et al., 1991: 5; Shattuck, 1994: 132; Bolton, 1995b: 293; Tang et al., 1995: 90; Kim & Kim, 1999: 18.
• Junior synonym of Ochetellus glaber: Wu & Wang, 1995a: 124; Zhou, 2001a: 163; Imai et al., 2003: 85.

Obsolete combinations

• Iridomyrmex itoi

Citations

• Azuma, M. 1950a. On the myrmecological-fauna of Tomogashima, Kii Prov., with the description of new genus and new species. [In Japanese.]. Hyogo Biology 1:34-37.
• Azuma, M. 1951. On the myrmecological-fauna of Osaka Prefecture, Japan with description of new species (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). [In Japanese and English.]. Hyogo Biology 1:86-90. PDF
• Azuma, M. 1953. On the myrmecological fauna of Mt. Rokko, Hyogo Prefecture. [In Japanese.]. Warera 2:1-7. PDF
• 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
• Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
• Forel, A. 1900h. Fourmis du Japon. Nids en toile. Strongylognathus Huberi et voisins. Fourmilière triple. Cyphomyrmex Wheeleri. Fourmis importées. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 10:267-287. PDF
• Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. PDF
• Imai, H. T.; Yosida, T. H. 1965. Chromosome observation in Japanese ants. Annual Report. National Institute of Genetics, Japan 15:64-66. PDF
• Kim, B.-J.; Kim, K. 1999. Systematic study of Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Korea. Korean Journal of Entomology 29:17-22. PDF
• Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Yamauchi, K.; Sonobe, R.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1991. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. II. Dolichoderinae and Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 56 pp.
• Onoyama, K. 1980a. An introduction to the ant fauna of Japan, with a check list (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Kontyû 48:193-212. PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 1992a. Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:13-18. 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
• Tang, J.; Li, S.; Huang, E.; Zhang, B.; Chen, Y. 1995. Economic insect fauna of China. Fasc. 47. Hymenoptera: Formicidae (1). [In Chinese.]. Beijing: Academy of Science Publishing House, ix + 134 pp.
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1951. The ant larvae of the subfamily Dolichoderinae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 53:169-210. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1906h. The ants of Japan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22:301-328. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1928d. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Japan and Korea. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 22:96-125. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929g. Some ants from China and Manchuria. American Museum Novitates 361:1-11. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1930k. A list of the known Chinese ants. Peking Natural History Bulletin 5:53-81. PDF
• Wu, J.; Wang, C. 1995a. The ants of China. [In Chinese.]. Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House, x + 214 pp.
• Yano, M. 1910a. On the ants of Japan. [In Japanese.]. Dobutsugaku Zasshi (Zoological Magazine) 22:416-425. PDF
• Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF