• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1948g: 140; Donisthorpe, 1949b: 501; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 224; Bolton, 1995b: 98; McArthur, 2012: 42.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus excavatus

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
• Donisthorpe, H. 1948e. A new species of Colobopsis (Hym., Formicidae) from New Guinea with a few notes on the subgenus. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 84:121-122. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1948g. A fourth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:131-143. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• 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