- Carebara in Poneridae, Attidae: Smith, 1858a: 178.
- Carebara in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 23 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1871b: 334 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 74.
- Carebara in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Emery, 1877b: 81 [Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae].
- Carebara in Myrmicinae, Myrmicariini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
- Carebara in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Forel, 1893b: 164; Emery, 1895l: 770; Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Kusnezov, 1964: 61; Kempf, 1972b: 74; Jaffe, 1993: 10; Bolton, 2003: 61.
- Carebara in Myrmicinae, Pheidologeton genus group: Ettershank, 1966: 81; Bolton, 1987: 265.
- Carebara in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetini: Emery, 1914e: 41; Arnold, 1916: 248; Forel, 1917: 244; Emery, 1924f: 219; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 106 [Pheidologetonini].
- Carebara in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Junior synonyms
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Aeromyrma
Forel, 1891
Obsolete classification(s): Carebara (Aeromyrma), Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma)
- Afroxyidris Belshaw & Bolton, 1994
- Amauromyrmex Wheeler, 1929
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Aneleus
Emery, 1900
Obsolete classification(s): Aneleus (Aneleus), Pheidologeton (Aneleus)
- Crateropsis Patrizi, 1948
- Erebomyrma Wheeler, 1903
- Hendecatella Wheeler, 1927
- Idrisella Santschi, 1937
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Lecanomyrma
Forel, 1913
Obsolete classification(s): Aneleus (Lecanomyrma), Carebara (Lecanomyrma)
- Neoblepharidatta Sheela & Narendran, 1997
- Nimbamyrma Bernard, 1953
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Oligomyrmex
Mayr, 1867
Obsolete classification(s): Oligomyrmex (Oligomyrmex)
- Paedalgus Forel, 1911
- Parvimyrma Eguchi & Bui, 2007
- Pheidologeton Mayr, 1862
- Phidologeton Bingham, 1903
- Solenops Karavaiev, 1930
- Spelaeomyrmex Wheeler, 1922
- Sporocleptes Arnold, 1948
Genus Carebara references
Smith, 1858a: 178 (Carebara diagnosis); Roger, 1863b: 32 (Carebara catalogue); Mayr, 1863a: 402 (Carebara catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 23 (Carebara diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 106 (Carebara diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 74, 78 (Carebara, Oligomyrmex, Aeromyrma catalogues); Bingham, 1903: 150 (Carebara diagnosis); Bingham, 1903: 154 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma Oligomyrmex species key); Santschi, 1913e: 459 (African Oligomyrmex, key); Santschi, 1914d: 363 (Afrotropical Carebara species key); Arnold, 1916: 248, 254, 256 (Carebara, Aneleus, Aeromyrma diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 165, 687 (Aeromyrma diagnosis, Oligomyrmex subgenera key); Wheeler, 1922: 168, 172, 883 (Carebara diagnosis, Afrotropical species key, Afrotropical catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 177, 884 (Paedalgus diagnosis, Afrotropical catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 880, 881, 882 (Afrotropical Aneleus, Oligomyrmex, Aeromyrma catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1028 (Malagasy Oligomyrmex, Aeromyrma catalogues); Emery, 1924f: 213 (Aneleus diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 215 (Aneleus (Lecanomyrma) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 215 (Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 217 (Carebara (Oligomyrex) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 218 (Erebomyrma diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 219 (Carebara diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 221 (Paedalgus diagnosis, catalogue); Weber, 1950a: 1 (Africa Oligomyrmex species, synopsis); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 151, 154, 156, 158 (Asia Carebara, Aeromyrma, Aneleus, Oligomyrmex, Paedalgus checklists); Weber, 1952a: 11 (Africa Carebara (Aeromyrma) species key); Ettershank, 1966: 119 (Oligomyrmex diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Ettershank, 1966: 125 (Carebara diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Ettershank, 1966: 128 (Paedalgus diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Kempf, 1972b: 74 (Neotropical Carebara catalogue); Kempf, 1972b: 172 (Neotropical Oligomyrmex catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1389 (North America Oligomyrmex catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 71 (Australia Oligomyrmex catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 50 (Australia, New Caledonia Oligomyrmex checklist); Taylor, 1991b: 605 (Australia Oligomyrmex species, partial key); Brandão, 1991: 342 (Neotropical Oligomyrmex catalogue); Morisita et al., 1992: 45 (Japan Oligomyrmex species key); Bolton & Belshaw, 1993: 181 (Paedalgus diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bolton, 1995a: 1048, 1051 (Carebara, Oligomyrmex, Paedalgus census); Bolton, 1995b: 133, 298, 311 (Carebara, Oligomyrmex, Paedalgus catalogues); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 74 (China Oligomyrmex species key); Terayama, 1996b: 24 (Japan Oligomyrmex species key); Shattuck, 1999: 148 (Australia Oligomyrmex synopsis); Xu, 2003: 311 (China Oligomyrmex species key); Terayama, 2009: 151 (Taiwan species key); Bharti & Kumar, 2013b: 61 (India species key); Terayama et al., 2012: 5 (Taiwan species key); Sharaf & Aldawood, 2013b: 70 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Fischer et al., 2014: 57 (diagnosis; polita group revision, species key); Bharti & Akbar, 2014b: 321 (India species key); Fischer et al., 2015: 77 (Africa phragmotica group revision, specia key); Cantone, 2017: 193 (brief male diagnosis); Azorsa & Fisher, 2018: 15 (Malagasy species key); Akbar & Bharti, 2017: 36 (India species key); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 820 (Colombia species key)
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