• [Myrmetaerus also described as new by Soudek, 1925b: 14.]
• Myrmetaerus in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 667.
• Myrmetaerus as genus: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 667.
• Myrmetaerus as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Brown, 1973b: 182 [provisional].
• Myrmetaerus as junior synonym of Camponotus: Snelling, 1981: 404 (error).
• Myrmetaerus as junior synonym of Myrmoxenus: Buschinger et al., 1984: 336; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 37; Bolton, 2003: 249.
• Myrmetaerus as junior synonym of Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2015: 75 [by implication as Myrmoxenus synonymised under Temnothorax].

Citations

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