• Forelophilus in Formicinae, Formica genus group: Agosti, 1991: 295.
• Forelophilus in Formicinae, Camponotini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 646; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 19; Bolton, 1994: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 29; Bolton, 2003: 27, 121; Ward et al., 2016: 349.
• Forelophilus as subgenus of Camponotus: Ward et al., 2016: 349.

Obsolete classifications

• Forelophilus

Citations

• Agosti, D. 1991. Revision of the oriental ant genus Cladomyrma, with an outline of the higher classification of the Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 16:293-310. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
• Kutter, H. 1931c. Forelophilus, eine neue Ameisengattung. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 15:193-195. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF
• Zettel, H.; Zimmermann, D. 2007. On the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Philippine Islands: II. The genus Forelophilus Kutter, 1931. Asian Myrmecology 1:19-30. PDF