• Eusphinctus in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 645.
• Eusphinctus as subgenus of Sphinctomyrmex: Emery, 1895m: 456; Forel, 1900f: 328; Wheeler, 1910a: 137; Emery, 1911e: 7; Forel, 1917: 239.
• Eusphinctus as genus: Wheeler, 1918a: 219; Wheeler, 1922: 639.
• Eusphinctus as junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex: Brown, 1973b: 180 [provisional]; Brown, 1975: 31; all subsequent authors.
• Revived status as genus: Borowiec, 2016: 138

Obsolete classifications

• Eusphinctus (Eusphinctus)
• Sphinctomyrmex (Eusphinctus)

Citations

• Borowiec, M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608:1-280. 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF
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• Forel, A. 1900f. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part VII. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13:303-332. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1918a. The Australian ants of the ponerine tribe Cerapachyini. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 53:215-265. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.