• Cylindromyrmex in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 16 [Ponerinae]; Emery, 1896e: 177 [Ponerinae].
• Cylindromyrmex in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b: 162; Forel, 1895b: 116; Wheeler, 1910a: 137 [subtribe Cylindromyrmecini].
• Cylindromyrmex in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l: 767.
• Cylindromyrmex in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Forel, 1899b: 4.
• Cylindromyrmex in Dorylinae, Cylindromyrmecini: Emery, 1901b: 34.
• Cylindromyrmex in Pachycondylinae, Cylindromyrmecini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Cylindromyrmex in Ponerinae, Cylindromyrmecini: Emery, 1911e: 14; Forel, 1917: 239; Wheeler, 1922: 640; Wheeler, 1924b: 104; Brown, 1975: 36; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.
• Cylindromyrmex in Cerapachyinae, Cylindromyrmecini: Wheeler, 1902e: 185; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 636; Kempf, 1972b: 91; Bolton, 1990a: 67; Bolton, 1990c: 1357; Brandão, 1991: 339; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 25; Bolton, 2003: 33, 138.
• Cylindromyrmex in Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 4 (in figure); Borowiec, 2016: 106.
• Cylindromyrmex as subgenus of Cerapachys: Forel, 1892o: 243 (in key).
• Cylindromyrmex as genus: all authors except Forel, 1892o: 243.
• Cylindromyrmex as senior synonym of Holcoponera Cameron, 1891: Forel, 1892f: 256; Dalla Torre, 1893: 16; Forel, 1899b: 4; Emery, 1911e: 14; Emery, 1912d: 272; Wheeler, 1913a: 80; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 26; De Andrade, 1998a: 585; Bolton, 2003: 139; Borowiec, 2016: 106.
• Cylindromyrmex as senior synonym of Hypocylindromyrmex: Brown, 1973b: 181 [provisional]; Brown, 1975: 36; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Brandão, 1991: 339; Bolton, 1995b: 26; De Andrade, 1998a: 585; Bolton, 2003: 139; Borowiec, 2016: 106.
• Cylindromyrmex as senior synonym of Metacylindromyrmex: Kempf, 1972b: 91; Brown, 1975: 36; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Brandão, 1991: 339; Bolton, 1995b: 26; De Andrade, 1998a: 585; Bolton, 2003: 139; Borowiec, 2016: 106.

Junior synonyms

• Holcoponera Cameron, 1891
• Hypocylindromyrmex Wheeler, 1924
  Obsolete classification(s): Cylindromyrmex (Hypocylindromyrmex)
• Metacylindromyrmex Wheeler, 1924
  Obsolete classification(s): Cylindromyrmex (Metacylindromyrmex)

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