• Myrmecia in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a: 143.
• Myrmecia in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 18 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1866b: 896 [Myrmicidae].
• Myrmecia in Myrmicidae, Myrmeciidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
• Myrmecia in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 714 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 19.
• Myrmecia in Poneridae, Myrmeciinae: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Myrmecia in Ponerinae, Myrmeciini: Forel, 1893b: 162 [Myrmecii]; Emery, 1895l: 766 [Myrmecii]; Wheeler, 1910a: 134 [Myrmecii]; Emery, 1911e: 17; Forel, 1917: 235; Wheeler, 1922: 640; Clark, 1934c: 50; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 665.
• Myrmecia in Myrmeciinae: Clark, 1951: 16 (in key); Brown, 1954e: 23; all subsequent authors.

Junior synonyms

• Halmamyrmecia Wheeler, 1922
  Obsolete classification(s): Myrmecia (Halmamyrmecia)
• Pristomyrmecia Emery, 1911
  Obsolete classification(s): Myrmecia (Pristomyrmecia)
• Promyrmecia Emery, 1911
  Obsolete classification(s): Myrmecia (Promyrmecia)

Citations

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• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954e. Remarks on the internal phylogeny and subfamily classification of the family Formicidae. Insectes Sociaux 1:21-31. PDF
• Clark, J. 1934c. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:48-73. PDF
• Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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• Emery, C. 1877b. Saggio di un ordinamento naturale dei Mirmicidei, e considerazioni sulla filogenesi delle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 9:67-83. PDF
• Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1893b. Sur la classification de la famille des Formicides, avec remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 37:161-167. PDF
• Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
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