• Status as species: Wheeler, 1919f: 68; Emery, 1921c: 91; Crawley, 1924a: 394; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 142; Bolton, 1995b: 322; Eguchi, 2001a: 11; Eguchi, 2001b: 59 (redescription); Eguchi, 2003: 323; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 48.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole havilandi sapuana: Eguchi, 2001a: 11; Eguchi, 2001b: 59.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole havilandi selangorensis: Eguchi, 2001a: 11; Eguchi, 2001b: 59.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole havilandi sapuana Forel, 1911
• Pheidole havilandi selangorensis Forel, 1913

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Crawley, W. C. 1924a. Ants from Sumatra, with biological notes by Edward Jacobson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)13:380-409. PDF
• Eguchi, K. 2001a. A taxonomic study on Asian Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): new synonymy, rank changes, lectotype designations and redescriptions. Insecta Koreana 18:1-35. PDF
• Eguchi, K. 2001b. A revision of the Bornean species of the ant genus Pheidole (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Tropics Monograph Series 2:1-154. PDF
• Eguchi, K. 2003. A study on the male genitalia of some Asian species of Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 41:317-355. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1911a. Fourmis de Bornéo, Singapore, Ceylan, etc. récoltées par MM. Haviland, Green, Winkler, Will, Hose, Roepke et Waldo. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 19:23-62. PDF
• Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF