• Pachysima in Myrmicinae, Pseudomyrmini: Forel, 1917: 240; Emery, 1921c: 22.
• Pachysima in Pseudomyrminae: Wheeler, 1922: 112, 654.
• Pachysima as genus: Wheeler, 1918c: 308 (footnote); Wheeler, 1922: 112, 654; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 680; Bolton, 1973a: 358; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256.
• Pachysima as subgenus of Sima: Emery, 1912b: 97; Forel, 1917: 240; Arnold, 1916: 174; Emery, 1921c: 22.
• Pachysima as junior synonym of Tetraponera: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Ward, 1990: 470; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 41; Tang et al., 1995: 46; Bolton, 2003: 136.

Obsolete classifications

• Sima (Pachysima)

Citations

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