Cheliomyrmex Mayr, 1870b: 968. Type-species: Cheliomyrmex nortoni (junior synonym of Labidus morosus), by monotypy.
Taxonomic history
Cheliomyrmex in Dorylinae: Forel, 1878: 365 (footnote) [Dorylidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 7.
Cheliomyrmex in Dorylinae, Dorylini: Forel, 1893a: 163; Ashmead, 1905b: 381; Ashmead, 1906: 27.
Cheliomyrmex in Dorylinae, Ecitonini: Emery, 1895j: 765 [Ecitonii]; Emery, 1910b: 16 [Ecitini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 138; Forel, 1917: 240; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 635; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 633.
Cheliomyrmex in Dorylinae, Cheliomyrmecini: Wheeler, W.M. 1921d: 319; Borgmeier, 1955: 58; Kempf, 1972a: 76; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79.
Cheliomyrmex in Ecitoninae: Brown, 1973b: 166; Snelling, 1981: 392.
Cheliomyrmex in Ecitoninae, Cheliomyrmecini: Bolton, 1990c: 1357; H?lldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Jaffe, 1993: 13; Bolton, 1994: 39; all subsequent authors.
Genus Cheliomyrmex references: see above.