• Pentastruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini, Strumigeniti: Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 282.
• Pentastruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 666; Emery, 1924f: 326; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 682; Brown, 1948e: 102; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 42.
• Pentastruma as genus: Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 666; Emery, 1924f: 326; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 682; Brown, 1948e: 102; Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 282; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Ogata, 1991b: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Tang et al., 1995: 83.
• Pentastruma as junior synonym of Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1667; Bolton, 2000: 91; Bolton, 2003: 189.
• Pentastruma as junior synonym of Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 15; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 101.

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