• Lioponera in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 17.
• Lioponera in Pachycondylinae, Lioponerini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Lioponera in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b: 162; Forel, 1900f: 329; Wheeler, 1910a: 137; Emery, 1911e: 11; Forel, 1917: 239.
• Lioponera in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l: 765.
• Lioponera in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1902e: 185; Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 657.
• Lioponera as subgenus of Cerapachys: Forel, 1892o: 244.
• Lioponera as genus: Mayr, 1879: 666; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17; Forel, 1900f: 329; Bingham, 1903: 26; Emery, 1911e: 11; Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 657.
• Lioponera as junior synonym of Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 19; all subsequent authors.
• Revived status as genus: Borowiec, 2016: 156

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