Wheeler, 1922: 940, 1037 (Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1925d: 212 (diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 393 (Neotropical synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1039 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 12 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 21, 94 (diagnosis, synopsis); Blaimer et al., 2015: 6 (phylogeny, reclassification, synopsis); Ward et al., 2016: 347 (phylogeny, reclassification, synopsis); Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019: 735 (Colombia fauna); Boudinot et al., 2022: 120 (phylogeny, tribe diagnosis, genus group diagnoses, divergence dating, biogeography), 128, 134 (definition, genera key).
Extant: 11 valid genera (13 synonyms, 1 homonym, 1 unavailable misspelling), 423 valid species (61 synonyms, 3 homonyms, 18 unidentifiable, 6 unavailable, 206 obsolete combinations, 4 unavailable misspellings)
Fossil: 0 valid genera (1 synonym), 26 valid species (6 synonyms, 1 unidentifiable, 1 unavailable, 7 obsolete combinations)