Lutz, 1986: 182 (diagnosis, all species revision, key, phylogeny); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 24 (diagnosis); Lutz, 1990: 61 (subfamily synopsis; review of genus); Bolton, 1995b: 206 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 75, 262 (diagnosis, synopsis); Archibald et al., 2011: 3680 (synopsis).
Fossil: 1 valid tribe, 2 valid genera (2 synonyms, 1 excluded from Formicidae), 6 valid species (4 obsolete combinations)