Mayr, 1863a: 426, 427 (Leptogenys, Lobopelta); Roger, 1863b: 19 (Lobopelta, Leptogenys); Cresson, 1887: 258 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 43, 46 (Lobopelta, Leptogenys); Emery, 1911e: 99, 100, 101, 101 (Leptogenys (Leptogenys), Leptogenys (Machaerogenys), Leptogenys (Odontopelta), Leptogenys (Lobopelta)); Wheeler, 1922: 786, 788 (Afrotropical Leptogenys (Leptogenys), Leptogenys (Lobopelta)); Wheeler, 1922: 1010 (Malagasy); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 31 (Asia); Smith, 1951c: 787 (North America); Kempf, 1972b: 129 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1343 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 32, 39 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 34, 64 (Australia, New Caledonia); BrandĂ£o, 1991: 349 (Neotropical); Bolton, 1995b: 229; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 99 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 297 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist); Hamer et al., 2024: 207 (mainland China, Taiwan checklist).
Mayr, 1865: 14, 15 (Leptogenys, Lobopelta diagnoses); Mayr, 1867a: 89 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1879: 664 (Lobopelta species key); Forel, 1900f: 304 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 52, 55 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Leptogenys, Lobopelta species keys); Emery, 1911e: 97, 97, 99, 100, 101, 101 (diagnosis, subgenera key, Leptogenys (Leptogenys), Leptogenys (Machaerogenys), Leptogenys (Odontopelta), Leptogenys (Lobopelta) diagnoses); Arnold, 1915: 89, 89, 95 (diagnosis, South Africa Leptogenys (Leptogenys), Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species keys); Mann, 1919: 298 (Papuasia Leptogenys (Leptogenys) species key); Mann, 1921: 426 (Fiji Is Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species key); Wheeler, 1922: 93 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1923e: 14 (New World Leptogenys (Lobopelta) species key); Creighton, 1950a: 51 (Leptogenys (Lobopelta) Nearctic species key); Wilson, 1958c: 113 (Melanesia & Moluccas species revision, key); Wilson, 1958c: 136 (New Caledonia species key); Alayo, 1974: 8 (Cuba species key); Bolton, 1975a: 239 (diagnosis, review of genus), 244 (Afrotropical species revision, key), 293 (Malagasy species key); Ogata, 1987a: 123 (diagnosis, Japan); Trager & Johnson, 1988: 30 (U.S.A. species key); Morisita et al., 1989: 28 (Japan); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 41 (China species key); Shattuck, 1999: 189 (Australia synopsis); Xu, 2000a: 118 (China species key); Zhou, 2001a: 39 (China, Guangxi species key); Bolton, 2003: 163 (synopsis); Lattke, in FernĂ¡ndez, 2008a: 145 (Colombia species, review); Terayama, 2009: 115 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 133 (south-western Australia species key); Bakhtiar & Chiang, 2011: 46 (Sabah species, provisional key); Lattke, 2011: 139 (New World species revision, key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 154 (Fiji Is species key); Zhou et al., 2012: 886 (China species key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013c: 17 (India species key); Eguchi et al., 2014: 34 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 92 (diagnosis, synopsis, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2014: 11 (Malagasy species, revision, key, distribution maps); Xu & He, 2015: 150 (Oriental species key); Baccaro et al., 2015: 324 (genus in Brazil); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 295 (diagnosis); Arimoto, 2017a: 79 (Leptogenys modiglianii species group revision, SE Asia), 86 (Leptogenys modiglianii group key); Sharaf et al., 2017: 1 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Cantone, 2017: 262 (brief male diagnosis); Wachkoo et al., 2018: 6 (Oriental Leptogenys chinensis group key); Arimoto & Yamane, 2018: 9 (Leptogenys chalybaea species group key), 25 (Oriental region species, key); FernĂ¡ndez & Guerrero, 2019: 523 (Colombia species key); Ramage et al., 2019: 6 (New Caledonia species key); Heterick, 2021: 208 (Western Australia species key); Subedi et al., 2022: 17 (Nepal species key (workers)); Tozetto et al., 2022: 1 (Leptogenys unistimulosa species group review), 3 (Leptogenys unistimulosa species group worker, male diagnoses), 15 (additions to Lattke, 2011 worker key; key to known Leptogenys unistimulosa species group males); Chen et al., 2024: 210 (China worker key); Hamer et al., 2024: 173 (Hong Kong SAR worker key); Cavalcanti & Lattke, 2024: 6 (additions to Lattke, 2011 worker key); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 351 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).