Dalla Torre, 1893: 136; Wheeler, 1922: 886 (Afrotropical); Emery, 1924f: 224; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 111 (Asia); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 55 (Australia); Bolton, 1995b: 83; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 221 (Afrotropical checklist).
Arnold, 1917: 360 (diagnosis); Emery, 1924f: 224 (diagnosis); Baroni Urbani, 1975a: 410 (Oriental species revision, key); Bolton, 1981a: 61 (diagnosis, Afrotropical species revision, key); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 128 (Australia synopsis); Eguchi et al., 2011: 12 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Shattuck, 2011a: 3 (S.E. Asia and Oceania species revision, key); Akbar & Bharti, 2015: 6 (Indomalayan species key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 222 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 192 (brief male diagnosis); Jaitrong & Yamane, 2018: 138 (continental southeast Asia species key); Ito et al., 2023: 66 (foraging and feeding of Calyptomyrmex rectopilosus); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 331 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).
Extant: 39 valid species (9 synonyms, 1 homonym, 1 obsolete combination, 1 unavailable misspelling), 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym, 3 obsolete combinations)