- Vollenhovia in Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae] Dalla Torre, 1893: 61.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Wheeler, 1915i: 51.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Emery, 1912b: 105.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini] Forel, 1917: 242; Emery, 1922c: 163; Wheeler, 1922: 662; all subsequent authors to the following.
- Vollenhovia incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Ettershank, 1966: 81; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 81.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Metaponini: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 105.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Bolton, 2003: 59.
- Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Junior synonyms
- Aratromyrmex Stitz, 1938
- Dorothea Donisthorpe, 1948
- Dyomorium Donisthorpe, 1947
- Heteromyrmex Wheeler, 1920
- †Propodomyrma Wheeler, 1910
- Vollenhovenia Dalla Torre, 1893
Genus Vollenhovia references
Mayr, 1867a: 94 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 61 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903: 213 (diagnosis); Emery, 1922c: 163 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 1026 (Malagasy catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 135, 169, 174 (Asia Aratromyrmex, Vollenhovia, Dyomorium checklists); Ettershank, 1966: 146 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 92 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 80 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Taylor, 1991b: 612 (Australia species key); {ref #2733}: 48 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 422 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 106 (China species key); Terayama & Kinomura, 1997: 1 (Japan species key); Shattuck, 1999: 171 (Australia synopsis); Terayama, 2009: 147 (Taiwan species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 144 (Fiji species key); Bharti & Kumar, 2013c: 181 (India species key); Cantone, 2017: 248 (brief male diagnosis); Sadasivan & Kripakaran, 2022: 21381 (description of worker caste), 21385 (key to Indian subcontinent species (workers)).
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