Borowiec, 2016: 18 (diagnosis); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 45 (diagnosis)
[for references prior to 2015 see under the previous components of the subfamily: Acanthostichus, Aenictogiton, Aenictus, Cerapachyini, Cheliomyrmex, Cylindromyrmex, Dorylus, Ecitonini, Leptanilloidinae]; Baccaro et al., 2015: 70, 144 (Brazil genera key, text); Borowiec, 2016: 18, 37, 52 (subfamily diagnosis, key to genera (workers), key to genera (males)); Palacio, 2019: 577 (Colombia genera key); Borowiec, 2019: 648 (genomic phylogeny, divergence dating, biogeography)
Extant: 0 valid tribes (1 obsolete combination, 1 unavailable misspelling), 27 valid genera (28 synonyms, 1 homonym, 2 excluded from Formicidae), 755 valid species (161 synonyms, 6 homonyms, 3 unidentifiable, 9 unavailable, 1 excluded from Formicidae, 539 obsolete combinations, 3 unavailable misspellings)
Fossil: 1 valid genus (1 unavailable), 8 valid species (1 unavailable, 1 obsolete combination)