• Belonopelta in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1870a: 395; Dalla Torre, 1893: 43 [Ponerinae]; Emery, 1896e: 178 [Ponerinae].
• Belonopelta in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Belonopelta in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Forel, 1895b: 116; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 87 [subtribe Ponerini]; Forel, 1917: 238 [subtribe Ponerini]; Wheeler, 1922: 649; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Bolton, 2003: 44, 160.
• Belonopelta in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Pachycondyla genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 138; subsequent authors.
• Belonopelta as genus: all authors.
• Belonopelta as senior synonym of Leiopelta: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Bolton, 2003: 160; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 138.

Junior synonyms

• Leiopelta Baroni Urbani, 1975

Citations

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