• Epitritus in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
• Epitritus in Myrmicinae: Emery & Forel, 1879: 465 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 148 [Myrmicinae].
• Epitritus in Cryptoceridae, Dacetini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384 [Dacetonini].
• Epitritus in Myrmicinae, Dacetini, Strumigeniti: Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 283.
• Epitritus in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Forel, 1892d: 344; Forel, 1893b: 164; Emery, 1895l: 770; Emery, 1896e: 181; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1914e: 42; Emery, 1916a: 206; Forel, 1917: 246; Arnold, 1917: 384; Wheeler, 1922: 666; Emery, 1924f: 326; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 643; Brown, 1948e: 122; Brown, 1949c: 44; Bolton, 1995b: 28.
• Epitritus as genus: Emery, 1877b: 81; Emery & Forel, 1879: 465; Forel, 1892d: 344; Forel, 1893b: 164; Dalla Torre, 1893: 148; Emery, 1895l: 770; Emery, 1896e: 181; Ashmead, 1905c: 384; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1914e: 42; Santschi, 1914b: 114; Emery, 1916a: 206; Forel, 1917: 246; Arnold, 1917: 384; Wheeler, 1922: 666; Emery, 1924f: 326; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 643; Brown, 1948e: 122; Brown, 1949c: 44; Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 283; Bolton, 1973a: 343; Bolton, 1983: 354; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; Ogata, 1991b: 140; Bolton, 1995b: 28.
• Epitritus as junior synonym of Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1667; Bolton, 2000: 90; Bolton, 2003: 188.
• Epitritus as junior synonym of Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 12; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 101.

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