• Simopelta in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Donisthorpe, 1943h: 726; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 46; Bolton, 2003: 44, 170.
• Simopelta in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Pachycondyla genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 156.
• Simopelta as subgenus of Belonopelta: Mann, 1922: 10; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 726.
• Simopelta as junior synonym of Belonopelta: Baroni Urbani, 1975b: 296; Brandão, 1991: 330, 378.
• Simopelta as genus: Wheeler, 1935d: 8; Gotwald & Brown, 1967: 261; Kempf, 1972b: 230; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 46; Bolton, 2003: 44, 170; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 156.

Obsolete classifications

• Belonopelta (Simopelta)

Citations

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