• Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 18; Dlussky, 1994a: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 324; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 98; Fischer et al., 2016: 21 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Pheidole knowlesi extensa: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 98; Fischer et al., 2016: 21.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole knowlesi extensa Mann, 1921

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
• Fischer, G.; Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. Revision and microtomography of the Pheidole knowlesi group, an endemic ant radiation in Fiji (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) Myrmicinae. PLoS ONE 11 (7):41 pp. e0158544. 10.1371/journal.pone.0158544 PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.