• Perissomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16.
• Perissomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Archaeomyrmecini: Brandão, 1991: 391.
• Perissomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Smith, 1947i: 281; Kempf, 1972b: 182; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Bolton, 1994: 105; Longino & Hartley, 1995: 199.
• Perissomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.

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