• Sysphingta in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1865: 12 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18.
• Sysphingta in Dorylinae: Emery, 1896e: 175.
• Sysphingta in Dorylinae, Proceratiini: Emery, 1895l: 765.
• Sysphingta in Ponerinae, Proceratiini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wheeler, 1910a: 136; Emery, 1911e: 50; Arnold, 1915: 34; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 645; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 730.
• Sysphingta as genus: Mayr, 1863a: 455; Roger, 1863b: 21; Mayr, 1865: 12; Emery, 1895d: 262; Emery, 1896d: 101; Emery, 1896e: 175; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 50; Wheeler, 1910a: 136; Emery, 1916a: 102; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 645; Creighton, 1950a: 40.
• Sysphingta as junior synonym of Proceratium: Mayr, 1886d: 437; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18; Brown, 1957k: 118; Brown, 1958g: 241; Kempf, 1972b: 211; Bolton, 1973a: 333; Ogata, 1987a: 105; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 47; Tang et al., 1995: 25; Bolton, 2003: 179.
• [Sysphincta: incorrect subsequent spelling by Mayr, 1863a: 455; repeated by Mayr, 1865: 12; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 50; Emery, 1916a: 102; Forel, 1917: 236, and most subsequent authors.]

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