• Rhopalomastix in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Wheeler, 1910a: 140.
• Rhopalomastix in Myrmicinae, Melissotarsini: Emery, 1914e: 40; Forel, 1917: 242; Emery, 1922c: 118; Wheeler, 1922: 661; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 45; Bolton, 2003: 73, 258.
• Rhopalomastix in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Rhopalomastix in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini, Carebara genus group: Blaimer et al., 2018: 7.
• Rhopalomastix as genus: all authors.

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