• Forel, 1893f: 461 (q.)
• Combination in Myrmecopsis: Mayr, 1876: 76.
• Combination in Opisthopsis: Emery, 1893m: 219.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1876: 76; Dalla Torre, 1893: 219; Emery, 1896j: 378 (in list); Forel, 1907j: 299; Wheeler, 1918d: 347 (redescription); Emery, 1925d: 56; Clark, 1928b: 170; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 472; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 256; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 129; Taylor, 1987a: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 301.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica respiciens

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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• Clark, J. 1928b. Ants from North Queensland. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 45:169-171. PDF
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• Emery, C. 1893m. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in various genera attributed to Emery.]. Pp. 4-266 in: Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)5:363-382 [pagination of separate: 761-780]. PDF
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• Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. PDF
• Smith, F. 1865a. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from the islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 8:61-94. PDF
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• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1918d. The ants of the genus Opisthopsis Emery. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 62:341-362. PDF