• †Emplastus in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Donisthorpe, 1920b: 86; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 642; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 28.
• †Emplastus incertae sedis in Ponerinae: Viana & Haedo Rossi, 1957: 109.
• †Emplastus incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae: Ward et al., 2010: 362.
• †Emplastus in Dolichoderinae: Bolton, 2003: 19, 87; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 414; Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 242; Dlussky et al., 2015: 135.
• †Emplastus as genus: all authors.

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