• Status as species: Santschi, 1914b: 76; Emery, 1921c: 90; Wheeler, 1922: 821; Finzi, 1939a: 163; Bolton, 1995b: 330; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 214; Madl, 2019: 16.

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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