• †Megapterites in †Pseudosiricidae: Cockerell, 1920: 278; Abe & Smith, 1991: 53.
• †Megapterites in Formicidae, †Formiciinae: Lutz, 1990: 61.
• †Megapterites as junior synonym of †Formicium: Lutz, 1990: 61; Bolton, 1995b: 34; Bolton, 2003: 262.

Citations

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• 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
• Cockerell, T. D. A. 1920. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum. - I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)5:273-279.
• Lutz, H. 1990. Systematische und palökologische Untersuchungen an Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 124:1-165.