• Tapinolepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 2003: 23, 107; Ward et al., 2016: 348.
• Tapinolepis as junior synonym of Anoplolepis: Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.
• Tapinolepis as subgenus of Anoplolepis: Santschi, 1926a: 14; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 730; Bolton, 1995b: 47.
• Tapinolepis as genus: Bolton, 2003: 23, 107, 267.
• Tapinolepis as senior synonym of Mesanoplolepis: Bolton, 2003: 107, 267.

Junior synonyms

• Mesanoplolepis Santschi, 1926
  Obsolete classification(s): Anoplolepis (Mesanoplolepis)

Obsolete classifications

• Anoplolepis (Tapinolepis)

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J.; Ayensu, E. S.; Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) 1973. Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, viii + 350 pp. PDF
• Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1943h. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [concl.]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:721-737.
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Fisher, B. L.; Bolton, B. 2016. Ants of the world. Ants of Africa and Madagascar. A guide to the genera. Berkeley: University of California Press, ix + 503 pp.
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
• Ramamonjisoa, M. M.; Rasoamanana, N.; Fisher, B. L. 2024. Male-based key to the subfamilies and genera of Malagasy ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1213:289-359. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1213.120531 PDF
• Santschi, F. 1926a. Trois notes myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 95:13-28. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF