• Heptastruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Weber, 1934a: 54; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 650; Brown, 1948e: 102.
• Heptastruma in Myrmicinae, Basicerotini: Brown, 1949f: 94.
• Heptastruma as genus: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 650.
• Heptastruma as junior synonym of Rhopalothrix: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 230; Kempf, 1972b: 226; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 31; Bolton, 2003: 185.

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