• Excluded from Formicidae; incertae sedis in Aculeata: Grimaldi et al., 1997: 7; Ward & Brady, 2003: 362
• Excluded from Formicidae; incertae sedis in “sphecid wasp subfamily” Ampulicinae: Rasnitsyn, 2002: 249; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003: 418; Dlussky, 2012: 88 (in text).
• Reinstated in Myrmeciinae: Osten, 2007: 353.
• Status as species: Brandão, 1990a: 313; Brandão, 1991: 337; Bolton, 1995b: 134; Osten, 2007: 353.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1990a. Phylogenetic, biogeographic, and evolutionary inferences from the description of an early Cretaceous South American Myrmeciinae. Pp. 313-314 in: Veeresh, G. K.; Mallik, B.; Viraktamath, C. A. (eds.) 1990. Social insects and the environment. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, 1990. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., xxxi + 765 pp. PDF
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Brandão, C. R. F.; Martins-Neto, R. G. 1990 ("1989"). [Untitled. Cariridris Brandão & Martins-Neto, new genus. Cariridris bipetiolata Brandão & Martins-Neto, new species.]. Pp. 201-202 in: Brandão, C. R. F.; Martins-Neto, R. G.; Vulcano, M. A. 1990. The earliest known fossil ant (first southern hemisphere Mesozoic record) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Psyche (Cambridge) 96:195-208. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2003 ("2002"). Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russian Entomological Journal 11:411-436. PDF
• Dlussky, G.M. 2012. New fossil ants of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Germany. Paleontological Journal 46 (3):288-292. PDF
• Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208:1-43. PDF
• Osten, T. 2007. Hymenoptera: Bees, wasps and ants. Pp. 350-365 in: Martill, D. M.; Bechly, G.; Loveridge R. F. (eds.) 2007. The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 625 pp. PDF
• Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2002. Superorder Vespidea Laicharting, 1781. Order Hymenoptera Linné, 1758 (=Vespida Laicharting, 1781). Pp. 242-254 in: Rasnitsyn, A. P.; Quicke, D. L. J. (eds.) 2002. History of insects. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 517 pp.
• Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G. 2003. Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17:361-386. PDF