• Wheeler, 1927c: 14 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952a: 117 (l.).
• Status as species: Hutton, 1881: 112; Mayr, 1886c: 363; Emery, 1887f: 446; Forel, 1892c: 336; Dalla Torre, 1893: 13; Forel, 1905d: 354; Emery, 1911e: 25; Stitz, 1911a: 351.
• Subspecies of Amblyopone australis: Wheeler, 1927c: 13 (redescription); Wheeler, 1935g: 9.
• Junior synonym of Amblyopone australis: Brown, 1958h: 14; Brown, 1960a: 167; Taylor, 1987a: 7; Bolton, 1995b: 61.

Obsolete combinations

• Amblyopone cephalotes

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1887f. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia (continuazione e fine). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 25[=(2)5]:433-448. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1892c. Die Ameisen Neu-Seelands. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 8:331-343. PDF
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• 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.
• Mayr, G. 1886c. Notizen über die Formiciden-Sammlung des British Museum in London. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36:353-368. PDF
• Smith, F. 1876c. Descriptions of three new species of Hymenoptera (Formicidae) from New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876:489-492. PDF
• Stitz, H. 1911a. Australische Ameisen. (Neu-Guinea und Salomons-Inseln, Festland, Neu-Seeland). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1911:351-381. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1952a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Ponerinae - Part I. American Midland Naturalist 48:111-144. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1927c. Ants of the genus Amblyopone Erichson. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62:1-29. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.