[3] It was placed in the new genus Myrmecopterula by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger and Gareth W. Griffith in 2020.

A single hole may exist in the veil serving as the entrance to the nest.

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.

Such as the weaving of mycelial threads to produce the veil which the ants are hypothesized to engage in.

Four other unnamed and poorly documented Myrmecopterula species are known.