• Lectotype designation: Ulysséa & Brandão, 2021: 22.
• Kempf, 1960f: 434 (q.); Ulysséa & Brandão, 2021: 22 (q.m.)
• Combination in Lundella: Emery, 1915g: 191.
• Combination in Hylomyrma: Kempf, 1960f: 434.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 292; Santschi, 1933f: 117; Kempf, 1960f: 434 (redescription); Kempf, 1964e: 55 (in key); Kempf, 1972b: 118; Kempf, 1973b: 230 (redescription); Kutter, 1977a: 88; Bolton, 1995b: 213; Wild, 2007b: 33; Pierce et al., 2017: 137; Ulysséa & Brandão, 2021: 22 (diagnosis, redescription).
• Senior synonym of Hylomyrma speciosa: Kempf, 1960f: 434; Kempf, 1972b: 118; Kempf, 1973b: 230; Bolton, 1995b: 213; Pierce et al., 2017: 137; Ulysséa & Brandão, 2021: 22.

Junior synonyms

• Hylomyrma speciosa (Borgmeier, 1937)
  Obsolete combination(s): Lundella speciosa

Obsolete combinations

• Tetramorium balzani

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 26:137-241. PDF
• Emery, C. 1915g. Noms de sous-genres et de genres proposés pour la sous-famille des Myrmicinae. Modifications à la classification de ce groupe (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1915:189-192. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1960f. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:417-466. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1964e. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. III. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 7:45-71. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1973b. A revision of the Neotropical myrmicine ant genus Hylomyrma Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 16:225-260. PDF
• Kutter, H. 1977a. Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Hylomyrma (Hym. Formicidae, Subf. Myrmicinae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 50:85-89. PDF
• Pierce, M. P.; Branstetter, M. G.; Longino, J. T. 2017. Integrative taxonomy reveals multiple cryptic species within Central American Hylomyrma Forel, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 25:131-143. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1933f. Fourmis de la République Argentine en particulier du territoire de Misiones. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 116:105-124. PDF
• Ulysséa, M. A.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2021. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical ant genus Hylomyrma Forel, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), with the description of fourteen new species. Zootaxa 5055 (1):1-137. 10.11646/zootaxa.5055.1.1 PDF
• Wild, A. L. 2007b. A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1622:1-55. PDF