• Leptanillini as tribe of Dorylinae: Emery, 1910b: 32; Wheeler, 1910a: 138 [Leptanillii]; Arnold, 1915: 113; Emery, 1916a: 94; Forel, 1917: 240; Bondroit, 1918: 16; Wheeler, 1922: 633.
• Leptanillini as tribe of Leptanillinae: Wheeler, 1923g: 335; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 17; Bolton, 1990b: 276; Bolton, 1994: 70; Bolton, 2003: 40, 152.

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