• 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.
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• 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
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• 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.
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