• Myrmelachista in Formicinae: Mayr, 1865: 10 [Formicidae].
• Myrmelachista in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c: 367 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 174.
• Myrmelachista in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1886h: 214; Forel, 1893b: 165; Forel, 1895b: 106; Emery, 1895l: 771; Forel, 1899h: 124; Wheeler, 1910a: 143.
• Myrmelachista in Camponotinae, Myrmelachistini: Forel, 1912j: 89; Forel, 1917: 249.
• Myrmelachista in Formicinae, Myrmelachistini: Wheeler, 1922: 696; Emery, 1925d: 32; Ward et al., 2016: 348.
• Myrmelachista in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.
• Myrmelachista in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384; Bolton, 2003: 23, 103.

Junior synonyms

• Hincksidris Donisthorpe, 1944
  Obsolete classification(s): Myrmelachista (Hincksidris)
• Neaphomus Menozzi, 1935

Obsolete classifications

• Myrmelachista (Myrmelachista)
• Myrmelachista (Myrmelachista)

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