Mayr, 1863a: 436; Roger, 1863b: 21; Cresson, 1887: 258 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 49; Emery, 1911e: 111; Wheeler, 1922: 792, 1013 (Afrotropical, Malagasy); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 42 (Asia); Smith, 1951c: 787 (North America); Kempf, 1972b: 170 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1344 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 36 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 48 (Australia, New Caledonia); Bolton, 1995b: 294; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 118 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 343 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).
Mayr, 1865: 11 (diagnosis); Emery, 1892f: 559 (all species key); Forel, 1900d: 57 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 47 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1911e: 111 (diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 108 (South Africa species); Gallardo, 1918c: 95 (Argentina species key); Wheeler, 1922: 99 (diagnosis); Creighton, 1950a: 55 (Nearctic species key); Wilson, 1959c: 485 (Melanesia & Moluccas species revision, key); Kempf, 1962b: 17 (Neotropical species key); Brown, 1976c: 96 (diagnosis, all species revision), 111 (New World species key), 114 (Indo-Australian species key), 117 (Africa & Madagascar species keys); Deyrup et al., 1985: 188 (Southeastern U.S.A. species, review); Brown, 1978b: 281 (supplement to Brown, 1976c); Ogata, 1987a: 125 (diagnosis, Japan); Morisita et al., 1989: 29 (Japan); Wang, 1993a: 220 (China species key); De Andrade, 1994c: 24 (Dominican Amber species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1051 (census); Gronenberg, 1995: 391 (mandible morphology); Shattuck, 1999: 194 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001a: 25 (China, Guangxi species key); Bolton, 2003: 164 (synopsis); Deyrup & Cover, 2004b: 141 (U.S.A. species key); Yoshimura et al., 2007: 89 (Japan species key); Fisher & Smith, 2008: 13 (Malagasy species revision, key); Rodriguez, 2008: 151 (Neotropical species key); Sorger & Zettel, 2011: 143 (Philippines species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 158 (Fiji Is species key); Eguchi et al., 2014: 37 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); MacGown et al., 2014: 521 (Nearctic species key); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 114 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Satria et al., 2015: 4 (Sumatra species key); Baccaro et al., 2015: 330 (genus in Brazil); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 341 (diagnosis); Larabee et al., 2016: 148 (monophyly); Cantone, 2017: 266 (brief male diagnosis); Chen et al., 2018: 6 (China species key); Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 537 (Colombia species key); Hoenle et al., 2020: 80 (Neotropical species key); Wang et al., 2020: 166 (Odontomachus infandus group key); Fernandes et al., 2021: 685 (molecular phylogeny); Heterick, 2021: 210 (Western Australia species key); Griebenow et al., 2023: 945 (male genital skeletomusculature); Acuña & Mapile, 2024: 237 (modification of Sorger & Zettel, 2011: 143 Philippines key); França et al., 2024: 1 (Neotropical revision), 11 (synoptic list of Neotropical species), 13 (diagnosis), 18 (Neotropical worker key), 28 (Neotropical gyne key); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 352 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).
Extant: 79 valid species (25 synonyms, 3 unidentifiable, 1 unavailable, 12 obsolete combinations), 0 valid subspecies (49 synonyms, 3 unavailable, 27 obsolete combinations)
Fossil: 3 valid species