• McAreavey, 1947: 14 (w.)
• Combination in Prolasius: McAreavey, 1947: 14.
• Subspecies of Prolasius advena: Wheeler, 1935g: 37.
• Status as species: Hutton, 1881: 111; Dalla Torre, 1893: 214; McAreavey, 1947: 14 (redescription).
• Junior synonym of Prolasius advena: Forel, 1905d: 355; Brown, 1958h: 43; Bolton, 1995b: 369.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica zealandica

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1905d. A revision of the species of the Formicidae (ants) of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 37:353-355. PDF
• Hutton, F. W. 1881. Catalogues of the New Zealand Diptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera; with description of the species. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey of New Zealand. New Zealand: Wellington, 132 pp.
• McAreavey, J. 1947. New species of the genera Prolasius Forel and Melophorus Lubbock (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 15:7-27. PDF
• Smith, F. 1878a. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from New Zealand, collected by Prof. Hutton, at Otago. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1878:1-7. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.