• Promyopias in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Forel, 1917: 238 [subtribe Plectroctenini]; Wheeler, 1922: 649; Santschi, 1924a: 158; subsequent authors; Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 2.
• Promyopias in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Odontomachus genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 129.
• Promyopias as subgenus of Myopias: Santschi, 1914d: 323; Forel, 1917: 238; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 687.
• Promyopias as subgenus of Pseudoponera: Wheeler, 1922: 649 (in key).
• Promyopias as junior synonym of Centromyrmex: Brown, 1973b: 184 [provisional]; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 44; Tang et al., 1995: 33; Bolton, 2003: 160.
• Promyopias as genus: Emery, 1915e: 26; Emery, 1919c: 106 (in text); Santschi, 1924a: 158; Brown, 1963a: 10; Bolton, 1973a: 339; Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 28; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 129.

Obsolete classifications

• Pseudoponera (Promyopias)

Citations

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