• [Also described as new by Wheeler, 1904a: 15.]
• Wheeler, 1904a: 15 (q.m.); Smith, 1940a: 106 (w.); Cole, 1965: 174 (s.)
• Combination in Pheidole (Pheidole): Cole, 1965: 174.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 564; Emery, 1922c: 114; Smith, 1940a: 106; Creighton, 1950a: 194; Smith, 1951c: 806; Cole, 1965: 174; Cole, 1966b: 15 (in key); Smith, 1967a: 355; Kutter, 1968c: 203; Smith, 1979: 1370; Wilson, 1984b: 328; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 45; Bolton, 1995b: 323; Wilson, 2003a: 580 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Epipheidole inquilina

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Cole, A. C., Jr. 1965. Discovery of the worker caste of Pheidole (P.) inquilina, new combination (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58:173-175. PDF
• Cole, A. C., Jr. 1966b. Ants of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin. Biological Series 7(3):1-27. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Kutter, H. 1968c ("1967"). Liste sozialparasitischer Ameisen. Archives. Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (n.s.)33:201-210.
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1940a. The discovery of the worker caste of an inquilinous ant, Epipheidole inquilina Wheeler. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 42:104-109. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986g. The ants of Nevada. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, vii + 138 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1903h. Some new gynandromorphous ants, with a review of the previously recorded cases. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 19:653-683. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1904a. Three new genera of inquiline ants from Utah and Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 20:1-17. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1984b. Tropical social parasites in the ant genus Pheidole, with an analysis of the anatomical parasitic syndrome (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 31:316-334. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.