Apterostigma Mayr, 1865: 111. Type-species: Apterostigma pilosum, by monotypy.
Taxonomic history
Apterostigma in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 25 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 149.
Apterostigma in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Emery, 1877a: 81 [Pheidolidae].
Apterostigma in Cryptoceridae, Attinae: Ashmead, 1905b: 384.
Apterostigma in Myrmicinae, Attini: Forel, 1893a: 164; Emery, 1895j: 770; Forel, 1899c: 37; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 141; Emery, 1913b: 251; Emery, 1914a: 42; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 669; Emery, 1924d; 337; all subsequent authors.
Genus Apterostigma references
Dalla Torre, 1893: 149 (catalogue); Wheeler, W.M. 1911h: 207 (species key); Emery, 1924d; 337 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kempf, 1972a: 23 (catalogue); Brandão, 1991: 326 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 74 (catalogue); Lattke, 1997: 121 (diagnosis, all species revision, key).