• Chelaner in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Forel, 1917: 242 [subtribe Monomoriini Emery, 1914e]; Emery, 1922c: 168 [subtribe Monomoriini Emery, 1914e]; Sparks et al., 2019: 232.
• Chelaner in Myrmicinae, Monomorium genus group: Ettershank, 1966: 81.
• Chelaner in Myrmicinae, Monomoriini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80.
• Chelaner as subgenus of Monomorium: Emery, 1914f: 410; Emery, 1915g: 190; Forel, 1917: 242; Emery, 1922c: 168; Wheeler, 1922: 676; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 633.
• Chelaner as junior synonym of Monomorium: Bolton, 1987: 287, 300; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Ogata, 1991b: 104; Bolton, 1995b: 24; Tang et al., 1995: 68; Heterick, 2001: 354; Bolton, 2003: 212.
• Chelaner as genus: Ettershank, 1966: 93; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 55; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 257; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80; Sparks et al., 2019: 232.
• Chelaner as senior synonym of Notomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 93; Sparks et al., 2019: 232.
• Chelaner as senior synonym of Schizopelta: Ettershank, 1966: 93; Sparks et al., 2019: 232.

Junior synonyms

• Schizopelta McAreavey, 1949

Obsolete classifications

• Monomorium (Chelaner)

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1987. A review of the Solenopsis genus-group and revision of Afrotropical Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 54:263-452. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
• Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. PDF
• Emery, C. 1915g. Noms de sous-genres et de genres proposés pour la sous-famille des Myrmicinae. Modifications à la classification de ce groupe (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1915:189-192. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
• Heterick, B. E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:353-459. PDF
• Heterick, B. E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 86:245 pp. 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 PDF
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
• Littauer, R. 2025. Corrections for grammatical agreement for species in Chelaner Emery, 1914 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 5723 (2):268-280. 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.2.6 PDF
• Ogata, K. 1991b. A generic synopsis of the poneroid complex of the family Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Part II. Subfamily Myrmicinae. Bulletin of the Institute of Tropical Agriculture Kyushu University 14:61-149. PDF
• Sparks, K. S.; Andersen, A. N.; Austin, A. D. 2019. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. Invertebrate Systematics 33:225-236. 10.1071/ISI6080 PDF
• Tang, J.; Li, S.; Huang, E.; Zhang, B.; Chen, Y. 1995. Economic insect fauna of China. Fasc. 47. Hymenoptera: Formicidae (1). [In Chinese.]. Beijing: Academy of Science Publishing House, ix + 134 pp.
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 111:255-264. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.