• Leptomesites in Leptanillinae: Kutter, 1948: 286; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 257.
• Leptomesites as junior synonym of Leptanilla: Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 433; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 33, 152; Tang et al., 1995: 45; Bolton, 2003: 152; Griebenow, 2024: 128; Griebenow et al., 2025: 121.

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