• Aenictinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 1990c: 1358; Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 315; Bolton, 1994: 12; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 49; all subsequent authors.
• Aenictinae as dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 36, 146; Brady & Ward, 2005: 593.
• Aenictinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Moreau et al., 2006: 102.
• Aenictinae as formicoid dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Brady et al., 2006: 18173; Ward, 2007c: 555.
• Aenictinae as junior synonym of Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 5.
• Aenictini as tribe of Dorylinae: Emery, 1901b: 36 [Aenictii]; Emery, 1904a: 116 [Aenictii]; Borgmeier, 1954c: 212; Borgmeier, 1955: 57; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11.
• Aenictini as tribe of Ecitoninae: Ashmead, 1905c: 381; Ashmead, 1906: 24.
• Aenictini as junior synonym of Ecitonini: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256 [Aenictii].
• Aenictini as tribe of Aenictinae: Bolton, 1994: 12; Bolton, 2003: 146.
• Aenictini as junior synonym of Dorylini: Brady et al., 2014: 5.

Obsolete classifications

• Aenictini

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