• Atopula in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Emery, 1912b: 105; Emery, 1914e: 41; Forel, 1917: 244; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Emery, 1924f: 242 [subtribe Podomyrmini].
• Atopula in Myrmicinae, Podomyrmini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79.
• Atopula as subgenus of Vollenhovia: Emery, 1912d: 273 (in text).
• Atopula as subgenus of Terataner: Arnold, 1952b: 130.
• Atopula as genus: Emery, 1912b: 104; Emery, 1914e: 41; Wheeler, 1922: 663, 678 (footnote); Emery, 1924f: 242; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 626; Bernard, 1948: 177 (key); Bernard, 1953b: 242; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 257; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79.
• Atopula as junior synonym of Tetramorium: Bolton, 1976: 359, 362; Bolton, 1980: 195; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 15; Ogata, 1991b: 99; Bolton, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 21; Tang et al., 1995: 78; Bolton, 2003: 227.

Obsolete classifications

• Terataner (Atopula)

Citations

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