• Subspecies of Odontomachus imperator: Wheeler, 1935g: 16.
• Status as species: Wilson, 1959c: 492.
• Junior synonym of Odontomachus rufithorax: Brown, 1976c: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 295.

Obsolete combinations

• Odontomachus imperator emeryi

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. 1976c. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section A. Introduction, subtribal characters. Genus Odontomachus. Studia Entomologica 19:67-171. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
• Wilson, E. O. 1959c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia V. The tribe Odontomachini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120:483-510. PDF