• Subspecies of Pheidole carbonaria: Wheeler, 1901c: 523.
• Subspecies of Pheidole tepicana: Emery, 1922c: 106
• Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 188; Bolton, 1995b: 318; Wilson, 2003a: 563 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 119; Serna et al., 2019: 928 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole carbonaria calens

Citations

• Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Forel, A. 1901d. I. Fourmis mexicaines récoltées par M. le professeur W.-M. Wheeler. II. A propos de la classification des fourmis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:123-141. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Serna, F. J.; Suárez, D.; Pérez, A.L. 2019. Género Pheidole. Capítulo 30. Pp. 917-1053 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1901c. The compound and mixed nests of American ants. Part II. The known cases of social symbiosis among American ants. American Naturalist 35:513-539. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.