• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 64 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e: 183 [Myrmicinae].
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Forel, 1899d: 52; Wheeler, 1910a: 139.
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Forel, 1917: 243; Emery, 1922c: 188 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Wheeler, 1931a: 131; subsequent authors; Smith, 1979: 1384.
• Xenomyrmex incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Ettershank, 1966: 81.
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Archaeomyrmecini?: Brandão, 1991: 391.
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Kempf, 1972b: 259; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Jaffe, 1993: 11.
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Metaponini?: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 49.
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Forel, 1893b: 165; Bolton, 2003: 70, 254.
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Xenomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini, Cataulacus genus group: Blaimer et al., 2018: 7.
• Xenomyrmex as genus: all authors.
• Xenomyrmex as senior synonym of Myrmecinella: Wheeler, 1931a: 129: Kempf, 1972b: 259; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 2003: 254.

Junior synonyms

• Myrmecinella Wheeler, 1922

Obsolete classifications

• Monomorium (Xenomyrmex)

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