• [Justified emendation of spelling to Strumigenys scelesta by B. Bolton.]
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 33; Dlussky, 1993b: 60; Dlussky, 1994a: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 398; Bolton, 2000: 812 (redescription); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 133; Sarnat et al., 2019: 40.

Citations

• 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.
• Dlussky, G. M. 1993b. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, and the problem of island faunas formation. 2. Tribe Dacetini. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 72(6):52-65. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
• Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Hita Garcia, F.; Dudley, K.; Liu, C.; Fischer, G.; Economo, E. P. 2019. Ready species one: exploring the use of augmented reality to enhance systematic biology with a revision of Fijian Strumigenys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 3 (6): 6:1-43. 10.1093/isd/ixz005 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.