• Alistruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Brown, 1948e: 117.
• Alistruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini, Epopostrumiti: Brown, 1954b: 465; Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 281.
• Alistruma as junior synonym of Colobostruma: Brown, 1959c: 1; Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 281; Bolton, 1983: 270; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 19; Bolton, 1999: 1679; Shattuck, 2000: 31; Bolton, 2003: 186.

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