[1] In the context of mycology the subiculum is defined as a net, cottony or crust like growth of mycelium from which hyphae or fruiting bodies are produced.

[2] The type species, M. moniliformis was originally classified as Lachnocladium moniliforme by the German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings in 1904.

[3] M. nudihortorum and M. velohortorum were originally classified as Pterula species by the American mycologist Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger in 2014.

[4][5][6] These species were ultimately all reclassified as Myrmecopterula by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger and Gareth W. Griffith in 2020.

It is hypothesized that M. velohortorum descended from M. nudihortorum with the two species then taking different evolutionary paths due to co-evolving with ants engaged in varying behaviors.

This nest building behaviour is more similar to that of lower attine ants which engage in cultivation of Lepiotaceous fungi belonging to the G3 group.

[8][9] As the 'myrme' prefix in the name Myrmecopterula would suggest, these species are associated with fungus farming ants found in the neotropics of South America.

[11] Unlike L. gongylophorus, which is no longer capable of spreading via spores, some Myrmecopterula species may produce sterile or fertile fruiting bodies and may therefore not be as entirely reliant upon the ants.

This substrate is sometimes similar in appearance to that of the fungal gardens of Apterostigma pilosum group ants, which have been documented cultivating Myrmecopterula species.

However as M. moniliformis produces both fertile and infertile mushrooms and can grow without the ants, observations of fruiting bodies can be made which place the distribution around Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Bolivia.