• Acanthostichus in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 16 [Ponerinae].
• Acanthostichus in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b: 162; Forel, 1895b: 116; Wheeler, 1910a: 136 [subtribe Acanthostichini].
• Acanthostichus in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l: 765 [Cerapachyi].
• Acanthostichus in Dorylidae, Acanthostichinae: Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Ashmead, 1906: 29.
• Acanthostichus in Dorylinae, Acanthostichini: Emery, 1901b: 34; Smith, 1979: 1333.
• Acanthostichus in Ponerinae, Acanthostichini: Emery, 1911e: 12; Forel, 1917: 239; Gallardo, 1918c: 7; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 619; Brown, 1975: 41; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
• Acanthostichus in Cerapachyinae, Acanthostichini: Wheeler, 1902e: 184; Wheeler, 1922: 640; Kempf, 1972b: 10; Bolton, 1990a: 67; Bolton, 1990c: 1357; Brandão, 1991: 322; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 18; Bolton, 2003: 33, 138.
• Acanthostichus in Dorylinae: Emery, 1896e: 175 [Dorylinae]; Brady et al., 2014: 4 (in figure); Borowiec, 2016: 66.
• Acanthostichus as genus: all authors.
• Acanthostichus as senior synonym of Ctenopyga: Brown, 1973b: 179 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 18; MacKay, 1996: 132; Bolton, 2003: 138; Borowiec, 2016: 66.

Junior synonyms

• Ctenopyga Ashmead, 1906
  Obsolete classification(s): Acanthostichus (Ctenopyga)

Obsolete classifications

• Acanthostichus (Acanthostichus)

Citations

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