Dalla Torre, 1893: 43; Emery, 1911e: 35 (as part of Acanthoponera); Kempf, 1972b: 117 (Neotropical); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 30 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 28 (Australia, New Zealand); Bolton, 1995b: 212.
Emery, 1911e: 35 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1923f: 190 (all species key as part of Acanthoponera); Brown, 1958g: 194 (review of genus), 196 (Old World species key, New World species key); Brown, 1958h: 17 (New Zealand species); Kempf, 1962a: 31 (Neotropical species key); Fernández, 1993: 250 (Colombia species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 186 (Australia synopsis); Arias-Penna & Fernández, 2008: 113 (Neotropical species key); Heterick, 2009: 142 (south-western Australia species key); Taylor, 2011: 118 (Australia species groups and Heteroponera leae group key); Taylor, 2015b: 156 (Australia species groups and Heteroponera relicta group key); Baccaro et al., 2015: 196 (genus in Brazil); Cantone, 2017: 176 (brief male diagnosis); Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 676 (Colombia species key); Heterick, 2021: 62 (Western Australia species key); Camacho et al., 2022: 14 (diagnosis).
Extant: 27 valid species
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