• Jaffe, 1993: 8 [as tribe of Ponerinae]. Unavailable name; proposed without diagnosis.
• Fernández et al., 1996: 362 [as tribe of Ponerinae]. Unavailable name; proposed without diagnosis.
• Heteroponerinae as poneromorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 46, 176.
• Heteroponerinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Ouellette et al., 2006: 365; Moreau et al., 2006: 102; Brady et al., 2006: 18173.
• Heteroponerinae as formicoid ectaheteromorph subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007c: 556.
• Heteroponerinae as junior synonym of Ectatomminae: Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 660 [provisional]; Camacho et al., 2022: 9.
• Heteroponerini as tribe of Ectatomminae: Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 673 [provisional]; Camacho et al., 2022: 13.

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