• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Subspecies of Colobopsis badia: Stitz, 1932b: 736 (redescription); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 121; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 36; McArthur, 2012: 34.
• Status as species: Laciny et al., 2018: 30 (in text).

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus badius saginatus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Laciny, A.; Zettel, H.; Kopchinskiy, A.; Pretzer, C.; Pal, A.; Salim, K. A.; Rahimi, M. J.; Hoenigsberger, M.; Lim, L.; Jaitrong, W.; Druzhinina, I. S. 2018. Colobopsis explodens sp. n., model species for studies on “exploding ants” (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with biological notes and first illustrations of males of the Colobopsis cylindrica group. ZooKeys 751:1-40. 10.3897/zookeys.751.22661 PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
• Stitz, H. 1925c. Ameisen von den Philippinen, den malayischen und ozeanischen Inseln. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1923:110-136. PDF
• Stitz, H. 1932b. Formicidae der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Suppl.-Bd. 9(Tropische Binnengewässer 2):733-737. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF