• Vollenhovia in Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
• Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 61 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e: 183 [Myrmicinae].
• Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Wheeler, 1910a: 139; Wheeler, 1915i: 51.
• Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Emery, 1912b: 105.
• Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Forel, 1917: 242 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Emery, 1922c: 163 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Wheeler, 1922: 662; subsequent authors.
• Vollenhovia incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Ettershank, 1966: 81; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 81.
• Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Metaponini: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 49.
• Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Bolton, 2003: 59, 206.
• Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini, Vollenhovia genus group: Blaimer et al., 2018: 7.
• Vollenhovia as genus: all authors.
• Vollenhovia as senior synonym of Aratromyrmex: Baroni Urbani, 1980a: 96; Bolton, 1995b: 49; Bolton, 2003: 206.
• Vollenhovia as senior synonym of Dorothea: Ettershank, 1966: 146; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Ogata, 1991b: 114; Bolton, 1995b: 49; Tang et al., 1995: 63; Bolton, 2003: 206.
• Vollenhovia as senior synonym of Dyomorium: Ettershank, 1966: 146; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Ogata, 1991b: 114; Bolton, 1995b: 49; Tang et al., 1995: 63; Bolton, 2003: 206.
• Vollenhovia as senior synonym of Heteromyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 146; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Ogata, 1991b: 114; Bolton, 1995b: 49; Tang et al., 1995: 63; Bolton, 2003: 206.
• Vollenhovia as senior synonym of †Propodomyrma: Wheeler, 1915i: 51; Emery, 1922c: 163; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 688; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1995b: 49; Tang et al., 1995: 63; Bolton, 2003: 206.
• [Vollenhovenia: unjustified emendation of spelling by Dalla Torre, 1893: 61.]
• [Note: Vollenhovenia was treated as a junior synonym of Vollenhovia by Forel, 1893b: 166; Emery, 1922c: 163; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1995b: 49; Bolton, 2003: 206; the name is best regarded as an unjustified emendation.]
• [Vollenchovia: incorrect subsequent spelling by Ashmead, 1905c: 383.]

Junior synonyms

• Aratromyrmex Stitz, 1938
• Dorothea Donisthorpe, 1948
• Dyomorium Donisthorpe, 1947
• Heteromyrmex Wheeler, 1920
• †Propodomyrma Wheeler, 1910

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