• Ireneella in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini: Donisthorpe, 1941j: 175. Donisthorpe, 1943g: 653.
• Ireneella incertae sedis in Formicidae: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 259.
• Ireneella as genus: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 653.
• Ireneella as junior synonym of Rhoptromyrmex: Bolton, 1976: 298; Bolton, 1986a: 2; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 32; Bolton, 2003: 225.
• Ireneella as junior synonym of Tetramorium: Ward et al., 2015: 75 [by implication as Rhoptromyrmex synonymised under Tetramorium].

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