Dalla Torre, 1893: 168; Emery, 1913a: 35; Smith, 1951c: 836 (North America); Kempf, 1972b: 108, 160 (Neotropical Forelius, Neoforelius); Smith, 1979: 1419 (North America); Brandão, 1991: 344; Shattuck, 1994: 91; Bolton, 1995b: 190.
Emery, 1913a: 35 (diagnosis); Gallardo, 1916b: 74 (Argentina species key); Creighton, 1950a: 343 (Nearctic species, review); Kusnezov, 1957e: 16 (Neotropical species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 56 (U.S.A., Nevada species key); Shattuck, 1992c: 87 (diagnosis, review of genus); Bolton, 1995a: 1049 (census); Cuezzo, 2000: 197 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 227 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Guerrero & Fernández, 2008: 58 (addition to key); Baccaro et al., 2015: 136 (genus in Brazil); Cantone, 2017: 117 (brief male diagnosis); Guerrero, 2019: 710 (Colombia species key); Guerrero, 2021: 429 (morphological traits of Neotropical Tapinoma versus Neotropical Forelius).