• †Emplastus in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Donisthorpe, 1920b: 86; Bolton, 1994: 164.
• †Emplastus in Dolichoderinae: Bolton, 2003: 87; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 414; Dlussky et al., 2015: 135.
• †Emplastus incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae: Ward et al., 2010: 362.

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