• Ponerini as group name: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 185 [Ponérites].
• Ponerini as tribe of Poneridae: Forel, 1895b: 111 [Poneri].
• Ponerini as tribe of Ponerinae: Forel, 1893b: 163 [Ponerii]; Emery, 1895l: 767 [Ponerii]; Forel, 1899b: 2 [Ponerii]; Emery, 1901b: 36 [Ponerii]; Wheeler, 1910a: 135 [Ponerii]; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 54; Wheeler, 1915i: 27; Arnold, 1915: 36; Forel, 1917: 237; Gallardo, 1918c: 7; Wheeler, 1922: 638, 646; all subsequent authors.

Junior synonyms

• †Archiponerini Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988
• Centromyrmicini Emery, 1911
• Dorylozelini Wheeler, 1922
• Drepanognathini Ashmead, 1905
• Euponerinae Emery, 1909
• Harpegnathii Forel, 1900
• Leptogenysii Forel, 1893
• Odontomachidae Mayr, 1862
• Pachycondylinae Ashmead, 1905
• Plectroctenini Emery, 1911
• Pseudoneoponerini Chapman & Capco, 1951
• Thaumatomyrmecini Emery, 1901

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