• [Type-species not Formica bituberculata, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g: 167.].
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 71.
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Forel, 1899e: 57; Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Wheeler, 1910a: 139.
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Kusnezov, 1952d: 10 (in key).
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmex genus group: Ettershank, 1966: 81; in Solenopsis genus group: Bolton, 1987: 271; Brandão, 1990b: 412.
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmecini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80.
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Forel, 1917: 243; Emery, 1922c: 189; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Kusnezov, 1957b: 268; Kusnezov, 1962b: 160; Kusnezov, 1964: 61; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Jaffe, 1993: 10; Bolton, 1994: 106.

Junior synonyms

• Cepobroticus Wheeler, 1925
• Wheelerimyrmex Mann, 1922
  Obsolete classification(s): Megalomyrmex (Wheelerimyrmex)

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