• Acanthoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Acanthoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Emery, 1911e: 35; Forel, 1917: 236; Gallardo, 1918c: 16; Wheeler, 1922: 643; all subsequent authors to the following.
• Acanthoponera in Heteroponerinae, Heteroponerini: Bolton, 2003: 47, 177.
• Acanthoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Mayr, 1862: 732; Roger, 1863b: 17; Mayr, 1863a: 394; Mayr, 1887: 540; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Wheeler, 1910a: 135.
• Acanthoponera as genus: Emery, 1895h: 346; Emery, 1911e: 35; Forel, 1917: 236; Gallardo, 1918c: 16; Wheeler, 1923f: 179; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 619; Kusnezov, 1956a: 13; Brown, 1958g: 188; all subsequent authors.
• Acanthoponera in Ectatomminae, Heteroponerini: Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 673.

Obsolete classifications

• Ectatomma (Acanthoponera)

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