• Simopone in Ponerinae: Forel, 1891c: 139 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17 [Ponerinae].
• Simopone in Dorylinae: Emery, 1896e: 175 [Dorylinae].
• Simopone in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l: 765.
• Simopone in Dorylinae, Cylindromyrmecini: Emery, 1901b: 34.
• Simopone in Ponerinae, Leptogenyini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Simopone in Ponerinae, Cylindromyrmecini: Emery, 1911e: 15; Arnold, 1915: 20; Forel, 1917: 239; Wheeler, 1922: 640; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 726; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 25.
• Simopone in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b: 162; Wheeler, 1910a: 137 [subtribe Cylindromyrmecini]; Brown, 1975: 18; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
• Simopone in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1902e: 185; Bolton, 1990a: 67; Bolton, 1990c: 1357; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 46; Bolton, 2003: 34, 141; Bolton & Fisher, 2012: 8.
• Simopone in Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 4 (in figure); Borowiec, 2016: 208.
• Simopone as subgenus of Cerapachys: Forel, 1892o: 243 (in key).
• Simopone as genus: Forel, 1891c: 139; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17; Emery, 1896e: 175; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wheeler, 1910a: 137; Emery, 1911e: 15; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 726; Bolton, 1973a: 341; Brown, 1975: 35; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 46; Bolton, 2003: 34, 141; Borowiec, 2016: 208.
• [Simopona: unjustified emendation of spelling by Schulz, 1906: 155.]

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