• Lectotype designation: Wilson, 2003a: 290.
• Forel, 1881: 9 (w.); Goñi et al., 1984: 365 (k.)
• Status as species: Forel, 1881: 9; Mayr, 1887: 587 (in key); Emery, 1888c: 354; Dalla Torre, 1893: 90; von Jhering, 1894: 391; Emery, 1896h: 625; Forel, 1897b: 300; Forel, 1901j: 355; Wheeler, 1905c: 124; Emery, 1906c: 154; Wheeler, 1908a: 133 (in key); Wheeler, 1911a: 23; Forel, 1912g: 221; Wheeler, 1913b: 490; Wheeler & Mann, 1914: 21; Mann, 1916: 436; Crawley, 1916b: 369; Wheeler, 1917g: 458; Luederwaldt, 1918: 44; Mann, 1920b: 426; Emery, 1922c: 100; Wheeler, 1922e: 6; Wheeler, 1923d: 4; Borgmeier, 1927c: 81; Eidmann, 1936a: 40; Santschi, 1939f: 161; Kusnezov, 1952d: 67 (in key); Kempf, 1960e: 393; Kempf, 1961b: 502; Kempf, 1972b: 190; Alayo, 1974: 12 (in key); Zolessi et al., 1988: 3; Bolton, 1995b: 321; Wilson, 2003a: 290 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 259; Wetterer et al., 2016: 15; Longino, 2019: 112; Serna et al., 2019: 947 (redescription); Camargo-Vanegas & Guerrero, 2020: 5.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole fallax britoi: Wilson, 2003a: 290.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole columbica: Wilson, 2003a: 290.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole jelskii fallacior: Wilson, 2003a: 290.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole fallax ovalis: Wilson, 2003a: 290.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole fallax rubens: Forel, 1901j: 356; Wheeler, 1908a: 133 (in key); Emery, 1922c: 100; Borgmeier, 1927c: 81; Kempf, 1972b: 190; Bolton, 1995b: 321.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole columbica Forel, 1886
  Obsolete combination(s): Pheidole fallax columbica
• Pheidole fallax britoi Forel, 1912
• Pheidole fallax ovalis Forel, 1912
• Pheidole fallax rubens Forel, 1899
• Pheidole jelskii fallacior Forel, 1901

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