• Xenometra in Myrmicinae, Cardiocondylini: Emery, 1922c: 126; Wheeler, 1922: 661; Kempf, 1972b: 259.
• Xenometra as genus: Emery, 1922c: 126; Wheeler, 1922: 661; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 736; Kempf, 1972b: 259.
• Xenometra as junior synonym of Cardiocondyla: Baroni Urbani, 1973a: 199; Marikovsky & Yakushkin, 1974: 60; Smith, 1979: 1375; Bolton, 1982: 309; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Brandão, 1991: 336; Ogata, 1991b: 97; Bolton, 1995b: 49; Bolton, 2003: 244.

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