• Prionogenys in Ponerinae: Emery, 1896e: 177 [Ponerinae].
• Prionogenys in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135.
• Prionogenys in Ponerinae, Leptogenyini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 106; Forel, 1917: 238; Wheeler, 1922: 652; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 685; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.
• Prionogenys as genus: Emery, 1896e: 177; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 106; Forel, 1917: 238; Wheeler, 1922: 652; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 685; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.
• Prionogenys as junior synonym of Leptogenys: Taylor, 1988: 33; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 43; Tang et al., 1995: 35; Xu, 2000a: 223; Bolton, 2003: 163; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 92.

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