Mayr, 1863a: 394, 457 (Aenictus, Typhlatta); Roger, 1863b: 36, 41 (Typhlatta, Aenictus); Dalla Torre, 1893: 7; Emery, 1895l: 746 (Africa); Emery, 1910b: 29; Wheeler, 1922: 751 (Afrotropical); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 10 (Asia); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 52 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 6 (Australia); Bolton, 1995b: 58; Borowiec, 2016: 85 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 186 (Afrotropical checklist).
Mayr, 1865: 17 (Aenictus, Typhlatta diagnoses); Mayr, 1879: 668 (Typhlatta species key); Forel, 1901a: 464 (India and Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 6 (diagnosis, India, Sri Lanka and Burma species key); Ashmead, 1906: 24 (genera key); Emery, 1910b: 28 (diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 136, 137 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1930j: 198, 207 (Aenictus (Typhlatta) and Philippines Aenictus (Aenictus) species keys); Wilson, 1964a: 436 (Indo-Australian species, revision, key); Billen & Gotwald, 1988: 293 (Dufour's gland); Terayama & Yamane, 1989: 602 (Indonesia, Sumatra species key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 179 (Turkmenistan species key); Bolton, 1990c: 1358 (diagnosis, morphology, phylogeny); Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 315 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 12 (diagnosis, synoptic classification); Xu, 1994a: 118 (China species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1047 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 50 (China species key); Hölldobler et al., 1996: 158 (metatibial gland); Shattuck, 1999: 58 (Australia synopsis); Billen et al., 1999: 307 (postpygidial gland); Zhou, 2001a: 58 (China, Guangxi species key); Perfilieva, 2002: 1239 (venation); Brady, 2003: 6575 (phylogeny); Bolton, 2003: 36, 146 (diagnosis, synopsis); Brady & Ward, 2005: 593 (phylogeny); Moreau et al., 2006: 102 (phylogeny); Brady et al., 2006: 18173 (phylogeny); Ward, 2007c: 555 (classification); Shattuck, 2008c: 3 (Australia, all species revision, key); Terayama, 2009: 124 (Taiwan species key); Jaitrong et al., 2010: 34 (Aenictus wroughtonii group key); Jaitrong & Yamane, 2010a: 329 (Southeast Asia Aenictus silvestrii assemblage species revision, key); Jaitrong et al., 2011: 321 (Laos species key); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); Jaitrong & Yamane, 2011a: 4, 11, 24 (Aenictus species groups key, Aenictus currax group key, Aenictus laeviceps group key); Jaitrong & Yamane, 2012a: 52, 67 (Aenictus javanus and Aenictus philippinensis groups keys); Bharti et al., 2012: 293 (India species key); Jaitrong & Wiwatwitaya, 2013: 98 (Southeast Asian Aenictus pachycerus group diagnosis, key); Jaitrong & Yamane, 2013: 169 (Southeast Asia Aenictus ceylonicus species group revision, key); Brady et al., 2014: 4 (phylogeny); Eguchi et al., 2014: 20 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Yamane & Wang, 2015: 53 (Aenictus pachycerus group, Borneo); Staab, 2015: 137 (Aenictus ceylonicus group, key to Chinese members); Borowiec, 2016: 78 (diagnosis); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 184 (diagnosis); Wong & Guénard, 2016b: 37 (Aenictus minutulus group key); Cantone, 2017: 127 (brief male diagnosis); Jaitrong & Ruangsittichai, 2018: 112 (Asian Aenictus wroughtonii group key); Heterick, 2021: 54 (Western Australia species key); Gómez, 2022: 1 (Afrotropical revision), 8 (species groups), 12 (synopsis of Afrotropical species), 13 (Afrotropical species key (workers)), 16 (Aenictus asantei species group), 19 (Aenictus decolor species group), 25 (Aenictus eugenii species group), 36 (Aenictus koloi species group), 42 (Aenictus popeyei species group), 45 (Aenictus rixator species group), 48 (Aenictus rotundatus species group), 49 (Aenictus mariae species complex), 59 (Aenictus rotundatus species complex), 82 (Afrotropical species biogeography); Antony & Prasad, 2022: 20785 (key to southern Asian Aenictus ceylonicus group species (workers)); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 15 (diagnosis); Dhadwal & Bharti, 2023: 392 (Aenictus ceylonicus group worker key); Sahoo et al., 2023: 620 (modification of Bharti et al., 2012 India worker key); Gómez et al., 2024: 4 (synopsis of Afrotropical species), 6 (Aenictus popeyei group worker key); Sahoo et al., 2024: 5 (Oriental Aenictus pachycerus species group synopsis).
Extant: 203 valid species (12 synonyms, 2 unavailable, 4 obsolete combinations, 2 unavailable misspellings), 25 valid subspecies (15 synonyms, 1 unavailable, 17 obsolete combinations)