• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 32; Mayr, 1863a: 429; Mayr, 1865: 93 (redescription); Mayr, 1876: 100 (in key); Hutton, 1881: 114; Ettershank, 1966: 89 (error).
• Junior synonym of Chelaner antarcticus: Emery, 1887f: 458; Forel, 1892c: 339; Dalla Torre, 1893: 65; Forel, 1905d: 354; Emery, 1922c: 169; Taylor, 1987a: 21; Bolton, 1995b: 262.

Obsolete combinations

• Monomorium fulvum

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. 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
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• 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
• Forel, A. 1892c. Die Ameisen Neu-Seelands. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 8:331-343. 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.
• Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. 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