• [Type-species not Eciton rufonigrum Jerdon, 1851 (now Tetraponera rufonigra Jerdon, 1851), unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1915b: 266, repeated by Emery, 1917a: 95; Emery, 1921c: 22.]
• Sima in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871b: 328.
• Sima in Myrmicidae, Myrmeciidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
• Sima in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 25 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1866b: 906 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 53 [Myrmicinae].
• Sima in Myrmicidae, Pseudomyrminae: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Sima in Myrmicinae, Pseudomyrmini: Forel, 1893b: 164; Emery, 1895l: 768; Emery, 1896e: 179; Emery, 1914e: 40; Forel, 1917: 240; Wheeler, 1915i: 40; Arnold, 1916: 173; Emery, 1921c: 21.
• Sima as genus: Mayr, 1863a: 453; Roger, 1863a: 178; Roger, 1863b: 25; Mayr, 1865: 25; Mayr, 1868b: 100; Forel, 1891c: 202; Dalla Torre, 1893: 53; Mayr, 1895: 144; Emery, 1900: 672; Bingham, 1903: 107; Forel, 1903a: 708; Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Emery, 1914e: 40; Emery, 1915b: 266; Arnold, 1916: 173; Emery, 1917a: 95; Forel, 1917: 240; Emery, 1921c: 21; Santschi, 1935b: 266.
• Sima as junior synonym of Tetraponera: Smith, 1877b: 68; Donisthorpe, 1916d: 244; Wheeler, 1920: 47; Wheeler, 1922: 105 (in text); Donisthorpe, 1943h: 726; Bolton, 1973a: 358; Ward, 1990: 470; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 46; Tang et al., 1995: 46; Bolton, 2003: 136.

Obsolete classifications

• Sima (Sima)

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