• Harpegnathini as tribe of Ponerinae: Forel, 1900d: 63 [Harpegnathii].
• Harpegnathina as subtribe of Ponerini: Emery, 1911e: 58 [Harpegnathini]; Forel, 1917: 237 [Harpegnathini].
• Harpegnathini as junior synonym of Ponerini: Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 12; Bolton, 2003: 43, 158; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 52.

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