Emery, 1896g: 58 (Neotropical species key); Arnold, 1916: 258 (South Africa species key); Arnold, 1917: 358 (Tetramyrma diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 890, 908 (Afrotropical Nesomyrmex (Goniothorax), Tetramyrma catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1029 (Malagasy Nesomyrmex (Goniothorax) catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 249 (Nesomyrmex (Goniothorax) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 291 (Tetramyrma review, catalogue); Kempf, 1959d: 394 (Neotropical Leptothorax (Nesomyrmex) species revision, key); Kempf, 1972b: 133 (Neotropical Leptothorax (Nesomyrmex) catalogue); Kempf, 1975c: 367 (additions to 1959b key); Bolton, 1982: 319 (diagnosis, review of genus, Afrotropical species key); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 349 (Neotropical catalogue); Bolton, 1995b: 235 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 272 (genus diagnosis); Mbanyana & Robertson, 2008: 36 (southern Africa species revision, key); Csősz & Fisher, 2015: 19 (Malagasy species-group key); Csősz & Fisher, 2016a: 1 (angulatus group revision, key); Csősz & Fisher, 2016b: 1 (sikorai group revision, key); Csősz & Fisher, 2016c: 105 (madecassus group revision, key); Csősz & Fisher, 2016d 125: (brevicornis group revision, key); Hita Garcia et al., 2017: 1 (Afrotropical species group key, angulatus species group key); Sharaf et al., 2017: 21 (Arabian Peninsula key); Cantone, 2017: 220 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 824 (Colombia species key); Sharaf, 2020: 355 (Arabian species key)