• Lectotype designation: Seifert, 2016b: 3.
• [Misspelled as cicatriciosa by Santschi, 1919e: 244.]
• Santschi, 1932h: 3 (q.)
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1932e: 70; Santschi, 1932h: 3.
• Subspecies of Pheidole pallidula: Santschi, 1919e: 244; Santschi, 1932h: 3; Santschi, 1936c: 201; Ceballos, 1956: 303.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole pallidula: Collingwood, 1978: 68; Bolton, 1995b: 319; Radchenko, 2016: 175.
• Status as species: Seifert, 2016b: 13.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole pallidula recticeps: Emery, 1921c: 87; Seifert, 2016b: 13.
• [Note: Emery, 1921c: 87, gives Pheidole pallidula recticeps as senior synonym, but Pheidole cicatricosa has priority.]

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole pallidula recticeps Menozzi, 1932

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole pallidula cicatricosa

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Ceballos, G. 1956. Catálogo de los Himenópteros de España. Madrid: Instituto Español de Entomología, 554 pp.
• Collingwood, C. A. 1978. A provisional list of Iberian Formicidae with a key to the worker caste (Hym. Aculeata). EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 52:65-95. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
• Santschi, F. 1919e. Fourmis d'Espagne et des Canaries. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 19:241-248. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1932e. Liste de fourmis d'Espagne recueilliés par Mr. J. M. Dusmet. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica de España 15:69-74. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1932h. Fourmis du Portugal. Memórias e Estudos do Museu Zoológico da Universidade de Coimbra. Série 1. Zoologia Sistemática 59:1-3. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1936c. Liste et descriptions de fourmis du Maroc. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc 16:198-210. PDF
• Seifert, B. 2016b. Inconvenient hyperdiversity – the traditional concept of “Pheidole pallidula” includes four cryptic species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Soil Organisms 88 (1):1-17. PDF
• Stitz, H. 1917. Ameisen aus dem westlichen Mittelmeergebiet und von den Kanarischen Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8:333-353. PDF