• Atopula in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Emery, 1912b: 105; Emery, 1914e: 41; Forel, 1917: 244; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Emery, 1924f: 242 [subtribe Podomyrmini]; all subsequent authors to Bolton, 1976: 359.
• Atopula in Myrmicinae, Podomyrmini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79.
• Atopula as subgenus of Vollenhovia: Emery, 1912d: 273.
• Atopula as subgenus of Terataner: Arnold, 1952b: 129.
• Atopula as genus: Emery, 1912b: 104; Emery, 1914e: 41; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Emery, 1924f: 242; Bernard, 1948: 177; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 257 (anachronism); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (anachronism).
• Atopula as junior synonym of Tetramorium: Bolton, 1976: 359; Bolton, 1980: 195; Bolton, 1994: 106.

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