• Paraenictus in Dorylinae: Wheeler, 1929h: 27.
• Paraenictus as subgenus of Aenictus: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 680.
• Paraenictus as junior synonym of Aenictus: Wilson, 1964a: 444; Bolton, 1973a: 357; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 41; Tang et al., 1995: 42; Bolton, 2003: 147; Borowiec, 2016: 78.

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