Taylor & Brown, 1985: 53 (Australia); Bolton, 1995b: 9, 12; Hamer et al., 2024: 109 (China checklist).
Emery, 1904a: 107 (anatomy, affinities); Wheeler, 1910a: 138 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1928: 85 (larva); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930: 199 (diagnosis); Morley, 1939: 114 (phylogeny); Kutter, 1948: 293 (diagnosis); Brown, 1954e: 28 (phylogeny); Bernard, 1967a: 90 (diagnosis); Petersen, 1968: 577 (tribe, males); Gotwald, 1969b: 97 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 37 (diagnosis); Brown, 1973b: 166 (genera, distribution); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 46 (larvae, review and synthesis); Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 430 (diagnosis, all species revision); Snelling, 1981: 392 (synoptic classification); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 257 (synoptic classification); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9 onward (synoptic classification, genera keys); Bolton, 1990b: 269 (diagnosis, revision of tribes, synoptic classification, key); Kugler, 1992: 103 (sting structure); Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 316, 317 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 69 (diagnosis, synoptic classification, genera key); Bolton, 1995a: 1040 (census); Ogata et al., 1995: 32 (genera, classification); Shattuck, 1999: 117 (Australia, synopsis); Bolton, 2003: 39, 151 (diagnosis, synopsis); Ouellette et al., 2006: 359 (phylogeny); Terayama, 2009: 125 (Taiwan genera key); Borowiec et al., 2011: 13 (genera key); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); General & Alpert, 2012: 73 (Philippines genera key); Xu, 2012c: 479 (genera key); Eguchi et al., 2014: 3 (Vietnam genera key); Boudinot, 2015: 29 (males diagnosis); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 49 (diagnosis); Griebenow, 2020: 235 (phylogeny, tribal revision), 237 (males diagnosis), 241 (key to known males); Griebenow et al., 2022: 1130 (genera key); Griebenow et al., 2023: 945 (male genital skeletomusculature, evolution); Griebenow, 2024: 83 (systematic revision), 111 (worker diagnosis), 112 (gyne diagnosis), 113 (male diagnosis), 114 (larva diagnosis), 148 (worker-based keys), 155 (male-based key to major subclades), 176 (biogeography and ecology); Hamer et al., 2024: 99 (diversity, distribution in China).
Extant: 2 valid tribes (1 synonym), 3 valid genera (7 synonyms), 82 valid species (2 unavailable, 13 obsolete combinations)