• Amauromyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetini: Wheeler, 1929b: 3; subsequent authors.
• Amauromyrmex as junior synonym of Pheidologeton: Ettershank, 1966: 115; Bolton, 1973a: 354; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 19; Tang et al., 1995: 75; Bolton, 2003: 217.
• Amauromyrmex as junior synonym of Carebara: Fischer et al., 2014: 64.

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