• Petalomyrmex in Formicinae, Myrmelachistini: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.
• Petalomyrmex in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.
• Petalomyrmex in Formicinae, Brachymyrmecini: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 258; Bolton, 1994: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 42.
• Petalomyrmex in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 2003: 23, 104; Ward et al., 2016: 348.
• Petalomyrmex as genus: all authors.

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