• Leptanilla in Dorylinae: Emery, 1870: 196 [Dorylidae]; Emery, 1904a: 116.
• Leptanilla in Myrmicinae: Emery, 1877b: 81 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 456 [Myrmicidae]; Emery, 1882a: 268 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 72.
• Leptanilla in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769.
• Leptanilla in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Leptanilla in Dorylinae, Leptanillini: Emery, 1910b: 32; Wheeler, 1910a: 138; Forel, 1917: 240; Wheeler, 1922: 636.
• Leptanilla in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini: Wheeler, 1923g: 335; Wheeler, 1928: 89; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 656; Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 433; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Bolton, 1990b: 276; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Bolton, 1994: 70; Bolton, 2003: 152.

Junior synonyms

• Leptomesites Kutter, 1948

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