Mayr, 1863a: 426; Roger, 1863b: 10; Dalla Torre, 1893: 162; Emery, 1913a: 15; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 186 (Asia); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 103 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 35 (Australia, New Caledonia); Brandão, 1991: 349; Shattuck, 1994: 115; Bolton, 1995b: 234.
Mayr, 1865: 7 (diagnosis); Emery, 1913a: 15 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1915e: 264 (Australia species key); Wheeler, 1934c: 80 (all species key); Shattuck, 1992c: 106 (diagnosis, review of genus); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 74 (Australia synopsis); Smith & Shattuck, 2009: 58 (micro-Leptomyrmex all species key); Lucky & Ward, 2010: 1 (diagnosis, macro-Leptomyrmex all species revision, key); Lucky, 2011: 281 (internal phylogeny); Boudinot et al., 2016: 658 (biogeography); Barden et al., 2017b: 765 (fossil examination, male characters, internal phylogeny, biogeography); Cantone, 2017: 119 (brief male diagnosis).
Extant: 28 valid species (5 synonyms), 0 valid subspecies (15 synonyms, 9 obsolete combinations)
Fossil: 1 valid species (1 obsolete combination)