• Rhizomyrma in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1893j: 347; Wheeler, 1910a: 143; Forel, 1912j: 89; Forel, 1917: 249.
• Rhizomyrma in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Wheeler, 1922: 695.
• Rhizomyrma as genus: Emery, 1906c: 182; Forel, 1912j: 89; Wheeler, 1910a: 143; Bruch, 1914: 227; Wheeler & Mann, 1914: 46; Forel, 1917: 249; Wheeler, 1922: 695; Kusnezov, 1956a: 33; Kusnezov, 1964: 68.
• Rhizomyrma as subgenus of Acropyga: Forel, 1893j: 347; Forel, 1912n: 771; Emery, 1925d: 29; subsequent authors except below; Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 2003: 95.
• Rhizomyrma as junior synonym of Acropyga: Brown, 1973b: 184 [provisional]; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; LaPolla, 2004a: 16.

Obsolete classifications

• Acropyga (Rhizomyrma)

Citations

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