Bolton, 1990c: 1344, 1351 (doryline section apomorphies, diagnosis); Bolton, 1990c: 1358 (Dorylinae diagnosis); Bolton, 2003: 31, 36 (dorylomorph subfamilies, Dorylinae); Brady & Ward, 2005: 593 (dorylomorph phylogeny); Brady et al., 2014: 4 (phylogeny); Boudinot, 2015: 48 (male diagnosis); Borowiec, 2016: 18, 37, 52 (subfamily diagnosis, world key to genera (workers), world key to genera (males)); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 45 (diagnosis); Borowiec, 2019: 642 (convergent evolution of army ant syndrome); Boudinot et al., 2024: 141 (fossil record review)
[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); Heterick, 2021: 25 (Western Australia genera key); Feitosa & Dias, 2024: 26 (key to Brazil genera); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 305 (Malagasy region male diagnosis, male-based key to genera).
Extant: 0 valid tribes (1 obsolete combination, 1 unavailable misspelling), 27 valid genera (28 synonyms, 1 homonym, 2 excluded from Formicidae), 764 valid species (161 synonyms, 6 homonyms, 3 unidentifiable, 10 unavailable, 1 excluded from Formicidae, 540 obsolete combinations, 22 unavailable misspellings)
Fossil: 1 valid genus (1 unavailable), 8 valid species (1 unavailable, 1 obsolete combination)