• Ophthalmopone in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 31 [Ponerinae]; Emery, 1896e: 178 [Ponerinae].
• Ophthalmopone in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Ophthalmopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 69 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Arnold, 1915: 49; Forel, 1917: 237 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Wheeler, 1922: 647; subsequent authors.
• Ophthalmopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Odontomachus genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 122.
• Ophthalmopone as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 40; Bolton, 2003: 166; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 3.
• Ophthalmopone as genus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 31; Mayr, 1895: 125; Emery, 1896e: 178; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 69; Arnold, 1915: 49; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 768; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 678; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 122.
• [Ophthalmopona: unjustified emendation of spelling by Schulz, 1906: 155.]
• [Ophthalmoponera: incorrect subsequent spelling by Ashmead, 1905c: 382.]

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