• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 89; Emery, 1914f: 393.
• Subspecies of Pheidole oceanica: Emery, 1914f: 401; Emery, 1921c: 93; Wheeler, 1935g: 19; Taylor, 1987a: 55 (error).
• Junior synonym of Pheidole fervens: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 45; Bolton, 1995b: 319; Zhou, 2001a: 130; Eguchi, 2004: 197; Eguchi, 2008: 24; Fischer & Fisher, 2013: 322; Sarnat et al., 2015: 39.

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