• Combination in Typhlopone: Smith, 1858a: 111.
• Combination in Dorylus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 13
• Unidentifiable to genus; incertae sedis in Dorylus: Emery, 1910b: 15.
• [Note: all authors repeat South America as place of origin; if correct the generic combination can not be Dorylus.]
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 111; Roger, 1861a: 45; Roger, 1863b: 20; Mayr, 1863a: 458; Dalla Torre, 1893: 13; Emery, 1895l: 743; Emery, 1910b: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 180.

Obsolete combinations

• Labidus westwoodii

Citations

• 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. 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
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Roger, J. 1861a. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 5:1-54. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
• Shuckard, W. E. 1840b. Monograph of the Dorylidae, a family of the Hymenoptera Heterogyna. (Continued from p. 201.). Annals of Natural History 5:258-271. PDF
• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF