• [Type-species not Pheidologeton pygmaea Emery, 1887h, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1913a: 77; repeated by Emery, 1924f: 214.]
• Aneleus in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Santschi, 1914b: 77; Wheeler, 1922: 663
• Aneleus in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetini: Emery, 1914e: 41; Arnold, 1916: 254; Forel, 1917: 243; Emery, 1924f: 213 [subtribe Pheidologetini].
• Aneleus as genus: Emery, 1914e: 41; Arnold, 1916: 254; Forel, 1917: 243; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Emery, 1924f: 213.
• Aneleus as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 119; Bolton, 1973a: 353; Smith, 1979: 1389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Ogata, 1991b: 110; Bolton, 1995b: 20; Tang et al., 1995: 74; Bolton, 2003: 215.
• Aneleus as junior synonym of Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 194.
• [Aneulus: incorrect subsequent spelling by Ogata, 1991b: 110.]

Obsolete classifications

• Aneleus (Aneleus)
• Pheidologeton (Aneleus)

Citations

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