• †Formiciinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Lutz, 1986: 181; Lutz, 1990: 1; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17; Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 317; Bolton, 1994: 187; Bolton, 2003: 262; Katzke et al., 2018: 4.
• †Formiciinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007c: 557.

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