• Plectroctena in Poneridae: Smith, 1858a: 101.
• Plectroctena in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 713 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 12 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 31 [Ponerinae]; Emery, 1896e: 178 [Ponerinae].
• Plectroctena in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Plectroctena in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 94 [subtribe Plectroctenini]; Arnold, 1915: 84; Forel, 1917: 238 [subtribe Plectroctenini]; Wheeler, 1922: 650; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 43; Bolton, 2003: 44, 169.
• Plectroctena in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Plectroctena genus group: Bolton & Brown, 2002: 2; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 174.
• Plectroctena as genus: all authors.
• Plectroctena as senior synonym of Cacopone: Bolton, 1974c: 313; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 43; Bolton, 2003: 169; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 174.

Junior synonyms

• Cacopone Santschi, 1914

Citations

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