• Combination in Psalidomyrmex: Bolton, 1974c: 334
• Status as species: Bolton, 1974c: 334.
• Junior synonym of Psalidomyrmex reichenspergeri: Bolton, 1975b: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 369; Bolton & Brown, 2002: 9.

Obsolete combinations

• Plectroctena mandibularis mabirensis

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1954. New Formicidae from Kenya and Uganda. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. Nouvelle Série in Quarto. Sciences Zoologiques 1:291-295. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1974c. A revision of the ponerine ant genus Plectroctena F. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 30:309-338. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1975b. A revision of the African ponerine ant genus Psalidomyrmex André (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 32:1-16. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 2002. Loboponera gen. n. and a review of the Afrotropical Plectroctena genus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology Series 71:1-18. PDF