Mayr, 1862: 719 (diagnosis); Roger, 1863b: 16, 17, 18 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a: 397, 428, 439, 440 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 13, 15 (Bothroponera, Pachycondyla, Megaponera, Paltothyreus diagnoses); Mayr, 1867a: 82 (Bothroponera diagnosis); Mayr, 1870a: 396 (Colombia + Panama (? = New Grenada) species key); Emery, 1887f: 18 (footnote) (Asia & Australia Bothroponera species key); Emery, 1890b: 71 (Neotropical species key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 30, 31, 32, 35 (Ectomomyrmex, Megaponera, Ophthalmopone, Paltothyreus, Pachycondyla, Bothroponera catalogues); Forel, 1900f: 321 (India & Sri Lanka Ectomomyrmex species key); Bingham, 1903: 86, 91, 96, 101 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Ectomomyrmex, Pseudoponera, Bothroponera, Brachyponera species keys); Emery, 1911e: 62 (Paltothyreus diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 67 (Megaponera diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 69 (Megaponera (Hagensia) and Ophthalmopone diagnoses, catalogues); Emery, 1911e: 70 (Neoponera diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 73 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 75 (Pachycondyla (Bothroponera) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 78 (Pachycondyla (Ectomomyrmex) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 80 (Euponera diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 80 (Euponera (Mesoponera) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 83 (Euponera (Brachyponera) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 84 (Euponera (Trachymesopus) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 86 (Pseudoponera diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 43, 46, 49, 53, 63 (Paltothyreus, Megaponera, Ophthalmopone, Pachycondyla, Euponera diagnoses); Arnold, 1915: 50, 55, 64 (South Africa Ophthalmopone, Bothroponera, Euponera (Mesoponera) species keys); Gallardo, 1918c: 56, 66 (Argentina Neoponera, Mesoponera, keys); Wheeler, 1922: 72 (Afrotropical Bothroponera species key); Wheeler, 1922: 60, 63, 69, 81 (Paltothyreus, Megaponera, Bothroponera, Euponera diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 763, 766, 768, 769, 774, 780 (Afrotropical Paltothyreus, Megaponera, Ophthalmopone, Bothroponera, Ectomomyrmex, Euponera, Pseudoponera, Cryptopone catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1007, 1008 (Malagasy Bothroponera, Euponera catalogues); Arnold, 1926: 203 (South Africa Hagensia species key); Santschi, 1935b: 259 (Africa Mesoponera, key); Creighton, 1950a: 45 (North America Euponera species key); Arnold, 1951: 53 (Hagensia species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 49, 60, 63, 74 (Asia Bothroponera, Ectmomomyrmex, Euponera, Pseudoponera checklists); Arnold, 1952a: 461 (South Africa Bothroponera, key); Bernard, 1953b: 191 (Guinea Euponera (Xiphopelta) species key); Brown, 1958h: 20 (New Zealand species); Wilson, 1958g: 346, 362 (Melanesia Brachyponera, Ectomomyrmex species keys); Kempf, 1961e: 192 (Brazil species key); Brown, 1963a: 6, 9 (reviews of Trachymesopus & Ectomomyrmex); Kempf, 1964e: 51 (Neotropical Pachycondyla species key); Kusnezov, 1969: 36 (Argentina Neoponera species key); Kempf, 1972b: 141, 160, 174, 248, 251, 257 (Neotropical Mesoponera, Neoponera, Pachycondyla, Termitopone, Trachymesopus, Wadeura catalogues); Alayo, 1974: 7 (Cuba species key); Smith, 1979: 1339, 1341 (North America, Pachycondyla, Brachyponera catalogues); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 21, 23, 28, 29, 34, 34, 52 (Australia, catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 9, 23, 26, 39, 80 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklists); Morisita et al., 1989: 18 (Japan Ectomomyrmex, Brachyponera, Trachymesopus species key); Brandão, 1991: 354, 360, 365, 381, 382 (Neotropical catalogue); Xu, 1994b: 182 (China Brachyponera species key); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1051 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 166, 302 (Cryptopone, Pachycondyla catalogues); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 45 (China species key); Xu, 1995b: 104 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 310 (Pachycondyla species key); Kim et al., 1998: 147 (Korea species key); Shattuck, 1999: 196 (Australia fauna synopsis); Zhou, 2001a: 35 (China, Guangxi species key); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003: 424 (wingless female fossils, diagnosis); Wild, 2003: 4 (Paraguay species key); Bolton, 2003: 165 (synopsis); Wild, 2005: 5 (Neoponera apicalis complex key); Yamane, 2007: 652 (Brachyponera nigrita species group key); Mackay & Mackay & Fernández & Arias-Penna, in Fernández, 2008a: 172 (Neotropical species key); Terayama, 2009: 108 (Taiwan species keys); Heterick, 2009: 134 (south-western Australia species key); MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 26, 107 (New World Pachycondyla species revision, species complexes key and species key); Dlussky & Wedmann, 2012: 746 (Germany Eocene fossils key); Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013b (sikorae-group diagnosis, revision, species key): 104; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013a (Madagascar wasmannii-group diagnosis, revision, species key): 449; Fernandes et al., 2014 (foetida-group diagnosis, revision, species key): 134; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 152 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Dlussky et al., 2015: 141 (diagnosis for impression fossils); Cantone, 2017: 268 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 540 (Colombia species key)