†Sphecomyrminae Wilson & Brown, 1967 valid

• †Sphecomyrmidae as family: Dlussky, 1983: 77 [†Sphecomyrmidae]; Dlussky, 1987: 132 [†Sphecomyrmidae]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 [†Sphecomyrmidae].
• †Sphecomyrminae as subfamily of Formicidae: Wilson et al., 1967: 6; Dlussky, 1975a: 114; Wilson, 1987b: 49; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9; Bolton, 1994: 184; Bolton, 1995b: 15; Dlussky, 1996b: 83; Grimaldi et al., 1997: 7; Dlussky, 1999a: 63; Bolton, 2003: 74, 260; Ward, 2007c: 555; LaPolla et al., 2013: 618 (in text); Barden, 2017: 2; Borysenko, 2017: 3.
• †Sphecomyrminae as senior synonym of †Armaniinae: Borysenko, 2017: 17 (in text).
• [Note: the author of this catalogue has reservations concerning the Borysenko, 2017 conclusion, and would prefer to regard †Armaniinae as a stem-group subfamily of Formicidae, or even a separate family. Its synonymy with †Sphecomyrminae is by no means convincing.]

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