• Hylidris in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Weber, 1941a: 183; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 651.
• Hylidris as genus: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 651.
• Hylidris as junior synonym of Pristomyrmex: Brown, 1953c: 9; Bolton, 1973a: 348; Bolton, 1981b: 282; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 15; Ogata, 1991b: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 31; Tang et al., 1995: 61; Bolton, 2003: 256.

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