• [Replacement name for Myrmecopsis Smith, 1865a; junior homonym of Myrmecopsis Newman, 1850: cxxii (Lepidoptera).]
• Opisthopsis in Camponotinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 219 [Camponotinae]; Emery, 1896e: 188 [Camponotinae].
• Opisthopsis in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Emery, 1895l: 772; Ashmead, 1905c: 384; Wheeler, 1910a: 144; Forel, 1912j: 89; Forel, 1917: 250.
• Opisthopsis in Formicinae, Formica genus group: Agosti, 1991: 295.
• Opisthopsis in Formicinae, Camponotini: Wheeler, 1922: 700; Emery, 1925d: 54; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 40; Bolton, 2003: 27, 121; Ward et al., 2016: 345.
• Opisthopsis as genus: all authors.
• [Opisthopis: incorrect subsequent spelling by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 256.]

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