• Combination in Chelaner: Ettershank, 1966: 97.
• Combination in Monomorium: Taylor, 1987b: 3.
• Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 97; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 57; Taylor, 1987a: 20; Bolton, 1995b: 263.
• Junior synonym of Chelaner leae: Heterick, 2001: 427; Heterick, 2005: 151.

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium insularis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Heterick, B. E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:353-459. PDF
• Heterick, B. E. 2005. Identity of Monomorium occidaneum Crawley, a species inquirenda, and status of Monomoriun micron Crawley (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 44:150-151. 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
• Taylor, R. W. 1987b. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). First supplement, 10 July, 1987. CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41(Suppl.1):1-5.
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.