• Combination in Pheidole: Dixey & Longstaff, 1907: 331
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 433; Dalla Torre, 1893: 110; Wheeler, 1922: 810; Bolton, 1995b: 323.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica irritans

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Dixey, F. A.; Longstaff, G. B. 1907. Entomological observations and captures during the visit of the British Association to South Africa in 1905. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1907:309-381. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.