• Metaponini as tribe of Ponerinae: Forel, 1911l: 446.
• Metaponini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Emery, 1914e: 34 [Metaponini]; Forel, 1917: 240; Emery, 1921c: 19; Wheeler, 1922: 661; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 114; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1995b: 13; Bolton, 2003: 71, 257.
• Metaponini as junior synonym of Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.

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