• Combination in Octostruma: Brown, 1949f: 92
• Status as species: Santschi, 1931d: 279; Brown, 1949h: 92.
• Junior synonym of Octostruma balzani: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 194; Kempf, 1972b: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 293; Longino, 2013b: 20.

Obsolete combinations

• Rhopalothrix barberi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949f. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini. I. Fauna of Japan, China and Taiwan. Mushi 20:1-25. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949h. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini: IV. Some genera properly excluded from the Dacetini, with the establishment of the Basicerotini new tribe. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 75:83-96. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Longino, J. T. 2013b. A revision of the ant genus Octostruma Forel, 1912 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 3699:1-61. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1922. Ants from Honduras and Guatemala. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 61:1-54. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1931d. Fourmis de Cuba et de Panama. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 1:265-282. PDF