• †Zigrasimecia in †Sphecomyrminae: Barden & Grimaldi, 2013: 410.
• †Zigrasimecia in †Sphecomyrminae, †Sphecomyrmini: Perrichot, 2014: 166.
• †Zigrasimecia in †Sphecomyrminae, †Zigrasimeciini: Borysenko, 2017: 18; Cao et al., 2020: 163.
• †Zigrasimecia in †Zigrasimeciinae: Boudinot et al., 2020: 29.
• †Zigrasimecia as genus: all authors.

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