• †Armaniinae as junior synonym of Formicidae: Wilson, 1987b: 49; Carpenter, 1992: 491.
• †Armaniinae as family: Dlussky, 1983: 66 [Armaniidae]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Grimaldi et al., 1997: 7; Dlussky, 1999a: 63; Rasnitsyn, 2002: 249; Engel & Grimaldi, 2005: 4; LaPolla et al., 2013: 617 (in text); Barden & Engel, 2019: 13; Fernández et al., 2021: 3 (in table)
• †Armaniinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 1994: 187; Dlussky, 1996b: 83; Bolton, 2003: 73.
• †Armaniinae as stem ant subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007c: 555.
• †Armaniinae: as junior synonym of †Sphecomyrminae: Borysenko, 2017: 15 (implied)
• †Armaniinae: as incertae sedis in Aculeata: Barden & Engel, 2019: 13
• †Armaniini as tribe of †Armaniinae: Bolton, 1994: 187; Bolton, 2003: 73, 259.

Obsolete classifications

• †Armaniini

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