Taxonomic history
Forel, 1913l PDF: 17 (m.).Status as species: Bingham, 1903 PDF: 68; Emery, 1911e PDF: 105; Forel, 1913l PDF: 17 (footnote); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 233; Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013c PDF: 18 (in key); Xu & He, 2015 PDF: 154 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 52; Arimoto & Yamane, 2018 10.20362/am.010008 PDF: 27 (in key).Senior synonym of Leptogenys roberti coonoorensis: Xu & He, 2015 PDF: 143.