• †Armaniinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 1994: 187 [†Armaniinae]; Bolton, 1995b: 9 [†Armaniinae]; Dlussky, 1996b: 83 [†Armaniinae]; Bolton, 2003: 73, 259 [†Armaniinae]; Ward, 2007c: 555 [†Armaniinae].
• †Armaniinae as junior synonym of Formicidae: Wilson, 1987b: 49; Carpenter, 1992: 491.
• †Armaniinae as junior synonym of †Sphecomyrminae: Borysenko, 2017: 17 (in text).
• [Note: the author of this catalogue has reservations concerning the Borysenko, 2017 conclusion, and would prefer to regard this taxon as a stem-group subfamily of Formicidae, or even a separate family. Its synonymy with †Sphecomyrminae is by no means convincing.]
• †Armaniinae incertae sedis in Aculeata: Barden & Engel, 2019: 13.
• †Armaniidae as family: Dlussky, 1983: 66 [†Armaniidae]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 [†Armaniidae]; Grimaldi et al., 1997: 7 [†Armaniidae]; Dlussky, 1999a: 63 [†Armaniidae]; Rasnitsyn, 2002: 249 [†Armaniidae]; Engel & Grimaldi, 2005: 4 [†Armaniidae]; LaPolla et al., 2013: 618 (in text) [†Armaniidae]; Barden & Engel, 2019: 13; Fernández et al., 2021: 3 (in table).

Obsolete classifications

• †Armaniini

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