• [†Palaeosminthurus juliae Pierce & Gibron, 1962 as junior synonym of Camponotus festinatus Buckley, 1866. Snelling, R.R. pers. comm. to B. Bolton, 2004, unpublished.]
• †Palaeosminthurus in Collembola, family †Palaeosminthuridae: Pierce & Gibron, 1962: 146.
• †Palaeosminthurus incertae sedis in Formicidae: Najt, 1987: 152; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.
• †Palaeosminthurus in Formicidae, †Palaeosmithurinae: Bolton, 1994: 187 [provisional subfamily status]; Bolton, 1995b: 14, 41; Bolton, 2003: 76, 263.
• †Palaeosminthurus as genus: all authors.
• †Palaeosminthurus as junior synonym of Camponotus: Snelling, R.R. (pers. comm. to B. Bolton, 2004). [Synonymy remained unpublished at his death in 2008, but is accepted provisionally here.]
• †Palaeosminthurus as unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Formicinae: Boudinot et al., 2024: 144.

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