Smith, 1858a: 143 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1862: 723 (all species key); Mayr, 1865: 18 (diagnosis); Forel, 1893b: 162 (diagnosis); Emery, 1895l: 766 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1910a: 134 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 17 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Forel, 1917: 235 (synoptic classification); Clark, 1943: 85 (Promyrmecia species key); Clark, 1951: 21, 119 (Myrmecia, Promyrmecia all species revisions, keys); Brown, 1953j: 1 (revisionary notes); Brown, 1954e: 22 (diagnosis, phylogeny); Eisner, 1957: 449 (proventriculus morphology); Brown, 1958h: 10 (New Zealand); Gotwald, 1969b: 113 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 38 (diagnosis); Brown, 1973b: 165 (genera, distribution); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 46 (larvae, review and synthesis); Greenslade, 1979: 11 (South Australia, review); Kugler, 1980b: 263 (sting structure); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 6 (Australia catalogue); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256 (synoptic classification); Billen, 1986b: 170 (Dufour's gland); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 (synoptic classification); Billen, 1988: 27 (comparison of genera); Billen, 1990c: 133 (sting bulb gland); Brandão et al., 1990: 201 (description of the subfamily's oldest fossil taxon); Ogata, 1991a: 353 (species groups review, phylogeny); Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1623 (all species review, key); Brandão, 1991: 390 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification); Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 317 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 73 (diagnosis, synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 119 (Australia, synopsis); Baroni Urbani, 2000: 480 (phylogeny); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003: 418 (fossil taxa, diagnosis for impression fossils); Ward & Brady, 2003: 361 (phylogeny, classification); Bolton, 2003: 29, 131 (diagnosis, synopsis); Brady et al., 2006: 18173 (phylogeny); Moreau et al., 2006: 102 (phylogeny); Archibald et al., 2006: 505 (fossil taxa, morphology, systematics, discussion); Greiner et al., 2007: 879 (photoreceptor variation); Heterick, 2009: 119 (south-western Australia species key); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); Boudinot, 2015: 49 (male diagnosis); Liu et al., 2019: 1 (mesosomal anatomy); Heterick, 2021: 30 (Western Australia genera key); Mera-Rodríguez et al., 2023: 8 (phylogeny).
Extant: 2 valid tribes (1 synonym, 1 obsolete combination), 2 valid genera (3 synonyms, 2 unavailable), 94 valid species (48 synonyms, 1 homonym, 1 unavailable, 31 obsolete combinations, 1 unavailable misspelling)
Fossil: 9 valid genera (2 synonyms), 22 valid species (2 obsolete combinations)