• [Junior homonym of Brunella Smith, G.W. 1909: 87 (Crustacea).]
• Brunella in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Forel, 1917: 245.
• Brunella in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Wheeler, 1922: 663, 678 (footnote); Emery, 1924f: 242; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 629.
• Brunella incertae sedis in Formicidae: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 259.
• Brunella incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80.
• Brunella as genus: Wheeler, 1922: 663, 678 (footnote); Emery, 1924f: 242; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 629; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 259; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80.
• Brunella as junior synonym of Atopula: Emery, 1924f: 242; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 629.
• Brunella as junior synonym of Aphaenogaster: Bolton, 1982: 341 (in text), 364; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Ogata, 1991b: 83; Bolton, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Tang et al., 1995: 49; Bolton, 2003: 229.
• Malagidris Bolton & Fisher, 2014, replacement name for Brunella Forel, 1917.

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