• Paltothyreus in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 714 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 15 [Poneridae]; Forel, 1891c: 135 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 32 [Ponerinae]; Emery, 1896e: 178 [Ponerinae].
• Paltothyreus in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Paltothyreus in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 62 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Arnold, 1915: 43; Forel, 1917: 237 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Wheeler, 1922: 647; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 41.
• Paltothyreus in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Odontomachus genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 124.
• Paltothyreus as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 41; Bolton, 2003: 166; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 3.
• Paltothyreus as genus: Mayr, 1863a: 440; Roger, 1863b: 17; Forel, 1891c: 135; Dalla Torre, 1893: 32; Mayr, 1895: 126; Emery, 1896e: 178; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 62; Arnold, 1915: 43 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 763; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 680; Bolton, 1973a: 338; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 124.

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