• Combination in Dorylus: Emery, 1888b: 345
• Combination in Dorylus (Dorylus): Emery, 1895l: 718.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 10; Emery, 1895l: 718; Emery, 1910b: 10; Arnold, 1915: 124; Wheeler, 1922: 731; Bolton, 1995b: 178.

Obsolete combinations

• Dichthadia furcata

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1888b ("1887"). Le tre forme sessuali del Dorylus helvolus L. e degli altri Dorilidi. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 19:344-351. PDF
• Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
• Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
• Gerstäcker, A. 1872. Hymenopterologische Beiträge. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 33:250-308.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.