• Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 220.
• Combination in Nylanderia: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 217.
• Combination in Paraparatrechina: LaPolla et al., 2010a: 128.
• Subspecies of Paraparatrechina opaca: Emery, 1925d: 220; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 217; Bolton, 1995b: 314.

Obsolete combinations

• Prenolepis opaca metallescens

Citations

• 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. 1900. Formiche raccolte da Elio Modigliani in Sumatra, Engano e Mentawei. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 40[=(2)20]:661-722.
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• LaPolla, J. S.; Brady, S. G.; Shattuck, S. O. 2010a. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Prenolepis genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 35:118-131. PDF