• Ophthalmopone in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 31.
• Ophthalmopone in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Ophthalmopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 69 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Arnold, 1915: 49; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 647; all subsequent authors.
• Ophthalmopone as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 2003: 166.
• Ophthalmopone revived from synonymy: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 122.

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