Dalla Torre, 1893: 170; Emery, 1913a: 15; Kempf, 1972b: 135; Brandão, 1991: 354; Shattuck, 1994: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 246; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 300 (Afrotropical checklist).
Emery, 1913a: 15 (diagnosis); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78 (synoptic classification); Shattuck, 1992a: 16 (diagnosis); Shattuck, 1992c: 114 (diagnosis, review of genus); Bolton, 1994: 26 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 76 (Australia synopsis); Wild, 2007a: 19 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Wild, 2009: 49 (phylogeny); Baccaro et al., 2015: 142 (genus in Brazil); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 299 (diagnosis); Escárraga & Guerrero, 2016: 448 (Colombia species key); Cantone, 2017: 120 (brief male diagnosis); Guerrero, 2019: 713 (Colombia species key); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 38 (diagnosis); Cantone & Di Giulio, 2023a: 125 (partial revision of Linepithema fuscum group based on males), 135 (description of male external genitalia of Linepithema humile (Linepithema humile group) and Linepithema neotropicum (Linepithema neotropicum group), 138 (key to Linepithema fuscum group males); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 303 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).
Extant: 21 valid species (5 synonyms, 1 homonym, 1 unidentifiable, 1 unavailable), 0 valid subspecies (10 synonyms, 1 unavailable, 1 obsolete combination)