• Melophorini as tribe of Camponotinae: Forel, 1912j: 88; Forel, 1917: 248.
• Melophorini as tribe of Formicinae: Wheeler, 1922: 694; Emery, 1925d: 10; Wheeler, 1935c: 69; Kempf, 1972b: 266; subsequent authors; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17; Brandão, 1991: 392; Bolton, 1995b: 12; Bolton, 2003: 28, 130; Blaimer et al., 2015: 6; Ward et al., 2016: 347.
• Melophorini as senior synonym of Myrmecorhynchini: Wheeler, 1935c: 69 (in text); Brown, 1955d: 471; Bolton, 1994: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 13; Blaimer et al., 2015: 6 [by implication]; Ward et al., 2016: 347.
• Melophorini as senior synonym of Notostigmatini: Blaimer et al., 2015: 6 [by implication]; Ward et al., 2016: 347.

Junior synonyms

• Myrmecorhynchini Wheeler, 1917
• Notostigmatini Bolton, 2003

Citations

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