• Arotropus as junior synonym of Amblyopone: Provancher, 1887: 240; Brown, 1960a: 155; Bolton, 1973a: 330; Smith, 1979: 1334; Ogata, 1987a: 103; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 21; Tang et al., 1995: 24; Bolton, 2003: 154.
• Arotropus as junior synonym of Stigmatomma: Dalla Torre, 1893: 14; Emery, 1911e: 23; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 625; Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 17.

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