• Combination in Podomyrma: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 83
• Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 83; Taylor, 1987a: 58; Bolton, 1995b: 339.
• [Formerly a junior secondary homonym of Vollenhovia nitida Smith, 1860b (Bolton, 1995b: 339). However, the senior name is currently combined in Vollenhovia, and thus, homonymy does not apply to this case anymore.]

Obsolete combinations

• Dacryon nitida

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.