• [Type-species not Formica bituberculata Fabricius, 1798, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g: 167.]
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 71 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e: 185 [Myrmicinae].
• 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.
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Solenopsis genus group: Bolton, 1987: 271; Brandão, 1990b: 412; Brandão, 1991: 354.
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmecini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80.
• Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Forel, 1917: 243; Emery, 1922c: 189 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 660; Kusnezov, 1957b: 268; Kusnezov, 1962b: 160; Kusnezov, 1964: 61; Kempf, 1972b: 139; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Jaffe, 1993: 10; Bolton, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 34; Bolton, 2003: 61, 210; Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Megalomyrmex as genus: all authors.
• Megalomyrmex as senior synonym of Cepobroticus: Ettershank, 1966: 101; Kempf, 1972b: 139; Brandão, 1990b: 415; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 34; Bolton, 2003: 211.
• Megalomyrmex as senior synonym of Wheelerimyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 101; Kempf, 1972b: 139; Brandão, 1990b: 415; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 34; Bolton, 2003: 210.

Junior synonyms

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

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