• Pristomyrmecia in Ponerinae, Myrmeciini: Emery, 1911e: 21.
• Pristomyrmecia as subgenus of Myrmecia: Forel, 1917: 235; Wheeler, 1922: 640.
• Pristomyrmecia as genus: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 686.
• Pristomyrmecia as junior synonym of Promyrmecia: Clark, 1927: 37; Clark, 1943: 84; Clark, 1951: 119.
• Pristomyrmecia as junior synonym of Myrmecia: Brown, 1953j: 1; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 43; Bolton, 2003: 132.

Obsolete classifications

• Myrmecia (Pristomyrmecia)

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953j. Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 111:1-35. PDF
• Clark, J. 1927. The ants of Victoria. Part III. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 44:33-40. PDF
• Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 13:83-149. PDF
• Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. 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
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.