- Cerapachyinae as family: Bernard, 1951c: 1046 [Cerapachyidae]; Bernard, 1953b: 215 [Cerapachyidae].
- Cerapachyinae as junior synonym of Ponerinae: Brown, 1975: 14; Snelling, 1981: 387; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
- Cerapachyinae as group of Dorylinae: Emery, 1901b: 36 [Cerapachinae].
- Cerapachyinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Wheeler, 1902e: 185; Wheeler, 1920: 53; Wheeler, 1922: 51, 632; Donisthorpe, 1922b: xlv; Borgmeier, 1923: 50; Clark, 1924a: 76; Clark, 1934c: 49; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 620; Creighton, 1950a: 56; Clark, 1951: 15 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17; Smith, 1951c: 781; Brown, 1954e: 26; Kusnezov, 1956a: 11; Kusnezov, 1964: 48; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 37; Kempf, 1972b: 263; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 46; Smith, 1979: 1333; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256; Ogata, 1987a: 127; Bolton, 1990a: 66; Bolton, 1990c: 1356; Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 316; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 18; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 47.
- Cerapachyinae as dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 32, 137; Brady & Ward, 2005: 593.
- Cerapachyinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Moreau et al., 2006: 102.
- Cerapachyinae as formicoid dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Brady et al., 2006: 18173; Ward, 2007c: 555.
- Cerapachyinae as junior synonym of Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 5
Obsolete classifications
Subfamily Cerapachyinae references
Emery, 1895l: 765 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1910a: 136 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 5 (tribes key); Wheeler, 1922: 51, 636 (diagnosis, tribes key); Morley, 1939: 114 (phylogeny); Smith, 1947f: 528 (U.S.A. diagnosis, genera); Brown, 1954e: 26 (phylogeny, notes); Eisner, 1957: 476 (proventriculus morphology); Gotwald, 1969b: 43 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 37 (diagnosis); Kempf, 1972b: 263 (Neotropical, synoptic classification); Brown, 1975: 11 (revision of tribes and genera, diagnoses); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 46 (larvae, review & synthesis); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 261 (diagnosis); Ogata, 1987a: 129 (Japan genera); Bolton, 1990a: 53 (abdominal morphology, diagnosis, synoptic classification, zoogeography); Bolton, 1990c: 1356 (diagnosis, morphology, phylogeny); Brandão, 1991: 390 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification, genera); Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 316 (phylogeny); Jaffe, 1993: 7 (Neotropical genera, synoptic classification); Lattke, in Jaffe, 1993: 165 (Neotropical genera); Bolton, 1994: 18 (diagnosis, synoptic classification, key to genera); Bolton, 1995a: 1038 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 10 (catalogue); Hölldobler et al., 1996: 158 (metatibial gland); Perfilieva, 2002: 1239 (venation); Palacio & Fernández, 2003: 238 (Neotropical genera keys); Brady, 2003: 6575 (phylogeny); Bolton, 2003: 32, 137 (diagnosis, synopsis); Brady & Ward, 2005: 593 (phylogeny); Moreau et al., 2006: 102 (phylogeny); Brady et al., 2006: 18173 (phylogeny); Ward, 2007c: 555 (classification); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); General & Alpert, 2012: 70 (Philippines genera key).
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Extant: 0 valid tribes (2 synonyms, 2 obsolete combinations)