• Metacylindromyrmex as subgenus of Cylindromyrmex: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 662.
• Metacylindromyrmex as junior synonym of Cylindromyrmex: Kempf, 1972b: 91; Brown, 1975: 36; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Brandão, 1991: 339; Bolton, 1995b: 35; De Andrade, 1998a: 585; Bolton, 2003: 139; Borowiec, 2016: 106.

Obsolete classifications

• Cylindromyrmex (Metacylindromyrmex)

Citations

• 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
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• Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1924b. The Formicidae of the Harrison Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica (New York) 5:101-122. PDF