• Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1930: 201; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 683; Petersen, 1968: 593 (review of genus); Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 480 (review of genus); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Bolton, 1990b: 277; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Bolton, 1994: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 42, 316; Ogata et al., 1995: 32 (review of genus); Bolton, 2003: 40; 152; Griebenow, 2020: 237.
• Phaulomyrma as junior synonym of Leptanilla: Griebenow, 2021: 630; Griebenow, 2024: 128; Griebenow et al., 2025: 121.

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