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Is http://www.antweb.org a pretty respected global authority for all ants? Ideally all changes should cite an authority, not the primary literature (though you could include a link to the source paper in the description). We'd prefer to cite authorities over the primary literature b/c it reduces the potential for taxonomic arguments: if we cite the primary literature we could potential argue over the validity of every paper, while if we cite authorities like antweb, we can just argue over the choice of authorities. The problem is that there aren't that many global authorities.
In case you want to provide a reference, that combination was a result of Ward et al. (2014):
WARD, P. S., BRADY, S. G., FISHER, B. L. and SCHULTZ, T. R. (2014), The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology. doi: 10.1111/syen.12090
I've been using it as a source for some taxon changes regarding myrmicine ants, so you should be able to find it in the source list.