• †Ctenobethylus in Bethylidae: Brues, 1939: 261.
• †Ctenobethylus in Formicidae: Brown, 1977: 213; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17.
• †Ctenobethylus in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Bolton, 2003: 19, 84.
• †Ctenobethylus in Dolichoderinae, Iridomyrmecini, Bothriomyrmecina: Dubovikoff, 2005a: 93.
• †Ctenobethylus in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini: Ward et al., 2010: 361.
• †Ctenobethylus as junior synonym of Iridomyrmex: Brown, 1977: 213; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17; Tang et al., 1995: 89.
• †Ctenobethylus as junior synonym of Liometopum: Shattuck, 1992c: 121; Shattuck, 1994: 128; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 1995b: 25.
• †Ctenobethylus as genus: Dlussky, 1997a: 58; Bolton, 2003: 19, 84; Dubovikoff, 2005a: 93; Ward et al., 2010: 361.

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