• Combination in †Formicium: Lutz, 1990: 60.
• In collective group name †Formicium: Archibald et al., 2011: 3681.
• Status as species: Lutz, 1990: 60 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 206; Archibald et al., 2011: 3681; Katzke et al., 2018: 3.

Obsolete combinations

• †Megapterites mirabilis

Citations

• Archibald, S. B.; Johnson, K. R.; Mathewes, R. W.; Greenwood, D. R. 2011. Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series B, Biological Sciences 278:3679-3686. PDF
• Cockerell, T. D. A. 1920. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum. - I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)5:273-279.
• Katzke, J.; Barden, P.; Dehon, M.; Michez, D.; Wappler, T. 2018. Giant ants and their shape: revealing relationships in the genus Titanomyrma with geometric morphometrics. PeerJ 6:36 pp. e4242. 10.7717/peerj.4242 PDF
• Lutz, H. 1990. Systematische und palökologische Untersuchungen an Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 124:1-165.