• Novomessor in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Forel, 1917: 241; Emery, 1921c: 66 [subtribe Stenammini]; Wheeler, 1922: 661; all subsequent authors except the following.
• Novomessor in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 675; Kempf, 1972b: 166.
• Novomessor as genus: Wheeler & Creighton, 1934: 343; Creighton, 1950a: 155; Hölldobler et al., 1976: 32; Demarco & Cognato, 2015: 7.
• Novomessor as junior synonym of Aphaenogaster: Brown, 1974b: 47; Bolton, 1982: 364 (discussion pp. 339-341).

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