• Combination in Pheidole: Roger, 1863b: 30.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 121; White, 1884: 270.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole pallidula: Smith, 1858b: 282.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole pusilla: Roger, 1859: 259; Emery, 1915i: 235; Emery, 1921c: 86.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole megacephala: Roger, 1863b: 30; Dours, 1873: 169; Emery & Forel, 1879: 463; Dalla Torre, 1893: 92; Forel, 1899b: 77; Ruzsky, 1905b: 650; Wheeler, 1919f: 66; Bolton, 1995b: 325; Eguchi, 2008: 56; Fischer & Fisher, 2013: 332; Sarnat et al., 2015: 50.

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica laevigata

Citations

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