• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1915b: 397; Emery, 1922c: 198.
• Subspecies of Solenopsis pylades: Bruch, 1914: 223.
• Subspecies of Solenopsis saevissima: Santschi, 1916e: 379; Bruch, 1917c: 162; Gallardo, 1919b: 247; Borgmeier, 1927c: 107.
• Junior synonym of Solenopsis richteri: Creighton, 1930b: 87; Smith, 1951c: 812; Wilson, 1952b: 57; Kempf, 1972b: 239; Trager, 1991: 187; Bolton, 1995b: 391; Pitts et al., 2018: 360.

Obsolete combinations

• Solenopsis pylades tricuspis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Wilson, E. O. 1952b. O complexo Solenopsis saevissima na America do Sul (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro 50:49-59. PDF