• †Gerontoformica incertae sedis in Formicidae: Nel et al., 2004: 24; Barden, 2017: 2
• †Gerontoformica in †Sphecomyrminae: Perrichot, 2014: 168 (in text).
• †Gerontoformica in †Sphecomyrminae, †Sphecomyrmini: Borysenko, 2017: 15
• †Gerontoformica as senior synonym of †Sphecomyrmodes: Barden & Grimaldi, 2016: 518

Junior synonyms

• †Sphecomyrmodes Engel & Grimaldi, 2005

Citations

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