- Cataulacus in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1853: 225; Emery, 1877b: 81.
- Cataulacus in Poneridae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1858a: 195.
- Cataulacus in Formicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1857a: 80; Smith, 1862d: 414.
- Cataulacus in Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1862a: 49; Smith, 1871b: 334; Smith, 1876d: 609.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 26 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 137.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Forel, 1892d: 344; Forel, 1893b: 164.
- Cataulacus in Cryptoceridae, Cataulacinae: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicinae, Cataulacini: Emery, 1895l: 771; Wheeler, 1910a: 142; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 246; Arnold, 1917: 386; Wheeler, 1922: 665; all subsequent authors.
- Cataulacus in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Junior synonyms
- Otomyrmex Forel, 1891
Mayr, 1865: 26 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1870a: 413 (Colombia + Panama (= New Grenada) species key, see under Procryptocerus); Forel, 1903a: 706 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 121 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Wheeler, 1910a: 142 (diagnosis); Emery, 1914e: 39 (diagnosis (in key)); Arnold, 1917: 386 (diagnosis); Arnold, 1920a: 403 (South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1922: 197 (diagnosis); Emery, 1924f: 294, 299 (Cataulacus, C. (Otomyrmex) diagnoses); Bolton, 1974a: 7 (revision of tribe, diagnosis, all species revision; Afrotropical & Malagasy species key: 13, Oriental & Malesian species key: 59); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 59 (larvae, review & synthesis); Kugler, 1978a: 476 (sting structure); Bolton, 1982 : 354 (Afrotropical species, revised key); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Bolton, 2003: 55, 193 (diagnosis, synopsis); Cantone, 2017: 194 (brief male diagnosis)
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