• Tricytarus incertae sedis in Formicidae: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 259.
• Tricytarus incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16.
• Tricytarus in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini?: Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 49, 422; Bolton, 2003: 70, 254.
• Tricytarus as an unidentifiable taxon: Bolton, 2003: 70, 254.
• [Note: Bolton, 2003: 254, comments that Tricytarus is an unrecognisable taxon: a male-based genus, description inadequate. Type-material not present in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, U.S.A., nor in The Natural History Museum, London, U.K.; presumed lost.]
• Tricytarus as junior synonym of Meranoplus: Boudinot, 2014: 96.

Citations

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• Boudinot, B. E. 2014. Rediscovery of Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947, a new genus-level synonym of Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Myrmecological News 20:95-100. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1947e. Some new ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:183-197. PDF
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 111:255-264. PDF