• Epopostruma in Cryptoceridae, Dacetini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384 [Dacetonini].
• Epopostruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini, Epopostrumiti: Brown, 1952j: 10 (footnote); Brown, 1954b: 465; Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 281.
• Epopostruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 667; Emery, 1924f: 329; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 644; Brown, 1948e: 119; Bolton, 1995b: 29; Bolton, 1999: 1681; Shattuck, 2000: 53; Bolton, 2003: 54, 187.
• Epopostruma in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Epopostruma as subgenus of Strumigenys: Forel, 1895g: 422.
• Epopostruma as genus: Emery, 1897c: 573; subsequent authors.
• Epopostruma as senior synonym of Hexadaceton: Brown, 1973b: 181 [provisional]; Bolton, 1983: 270; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 63; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 29; Bolton, 1999: 1681; Shattuck, 2000: 53; Bolton, 2003: 187.

Junior synonyms

• Hexadaceton Brown, 1948

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