• †Protopone in Ponerinae: Dlussky, 1988a: 52.
• †Protopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 44, 369; Bolton, 2003: 44, 172.
• †Protopone as genus: all authors.

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