• Paratopula in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Wheeler, 1922: 663.
• Paratopula in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 41.
• Paratopula in Myrmicinae, Paratopulini: Bolton, 2003: 65, 237.
• Paratopula in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Paratopula in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini, Paratopula genus group: Blaimer et al., 2018: 7.
• Paratopula as junior synonym of Atopula: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional].
• Paratopula as genus: Wheeler, 1922: 678 (footnote); Donisthorpe, 1943g: 682; Bolton, 1988b: 125; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 41; Bolton, 2003: 65, 237.

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