• Status as species: Arnold, 1917: 376; Wasmann, 1918b: 143; Wheeler, 1922: 917; Emery, 1924f: 320; Brown, 1954k: 26; Bolton, 1983: 365 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 395; Bolton, 2000: 591 (redescription); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 215.

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954k. The ant genus Strumigenys Fred. Smith in the Ethiopian and Malagasy regions. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 112:1-34. PDF
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