• Trachymesopus in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1911e: 84; all subsequent authors.
• Trachymesopus as subgenus of Euponera: Emery, 1911e: 84; Santschi, 1914b: 50; Arnold, 1915: 74; Emery, 1916a: 104; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 649; Borgmeier, 1923: 72; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 733; Creighton, 1950a: 46; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 65; Smith, 1951c: 786; Bernard, 1953b: 195; Viana & Haedo Rossi, 1957: 109.
• Trachymesopus as genus: Wilson, 1958g: 352; Kempf, 1960f: 423; Brown, 1963a: 6; Kempf, 1972b: 251; Bolton, 1973a: 340; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 52; Ogata, 1987a: 114; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Brandão, 1991: 382.
• Trachymesopus as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, 1994: 164; Tang et al., 1995: 39; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 3.
• Trachymesopus as junior synonym of Pseudoponera: Bolton, 1995b: 48; Bolton, 2003: 168; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 205.
• [Note: type-species of Pseudoponera and Trachymesopus are synonymous; Pseudoponera has priority.]
• [Trachyponera: incorrect subsequent spelling by Santschi, 1928a: 43.]

Obsolete classifications

• Euponera (Trachymesopus)

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