• Metapone in Ponerinae, Metaponini: Forel, 1911l: 446.
• Metapone in Myrmicinae, Metaponini: Emery, 1912b: 96; Emery, 1914e: 40; Forel, 1917: 240; Wheeler, 1919j: 177; Emery, 1921c: 19; Wheeler, 1922: 661; all subsequent authors except the entry below; Bolton, 1994: 105.
• Metapone in Cerapachyinae: Kusnezov, 1960a: 124.
• Metapone in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.

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