• Probolomyrmex in Dorylinae, Dorylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 381; Ashmead, 1906: 27.
• Probolomyrmex in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1910a: 137.
• Probolomyrmex in Ponerinae, Proceratiini: Emery, 1911e: 52; Arnold, 1915: 33; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 645; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 686; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 77.
• Probolomyrmex in Ponerinae, Platythyreini: Brown, 1952k: 1; Brown, 1975: 7; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Jaffe, 1993: 7; Bolton, 1994: 164.
• Probolomyrmex in Probolomyrmecinae: Perrault, 2000: 271.
• Probolomyrmex in Proceratiinae, Probolomyrmecini: Bolton, 2003: 49, 180.

Junior synonyms

• Escherichia Forel, 1910

Citations

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