• Acanthognathus in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 148 [Myrmicinae].
• Acanthognathus in Cryptoceridae, Dacetini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384 [Dacetonini].
• Acanthognathus in Myrmicinae, Dacetini, Dacetina: Brown, 1954b: 465; Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 281; Brandão, 1991: 322.
• Acanthognathus in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Forel, 1892d: 344; Forel, 1893b: 164; Forel, 1895b: 136; Emery, 1895l: 770; Emery, 1896e: 180; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 666; Emery, 1924f: 317; Brown, 1948e: 102; Kempf, 1972b: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 18; Bolton, 1999: 1650; Bolton, 2000: 15; Bolton, 2003: 54, 186.
• Acanthognathus in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
• Acanthognathus as genus: all authors.

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