• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972b: 244 (l.)
• Subspecies of Pheidole californica: Emery, 1922c: 105; Cole, 1937a: 100; Creighton, 1950a: 173; Smith, 1951c: 800.
• Status as species: Gregg, 1959: 12, 24 (in key and list), 33; Smith, 1967a: 354; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1371; Bolton, 1995b: 325; Wilson, 2003a: 585 (redescription); Ward, 2005: 66.

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole californica micula

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. 1937a. An annotated list of the ants of Arizona (Hymen.: Formicidae). [part]. Entomological News 48:97-101. 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
• Gregg, R. E. 1959 ("1958"). Key to the species of Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 66:7-48. PDF
• Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
• 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. 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
• Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1972b. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmicinae: second supplement on the tribes Myrmicini and Pheidolini. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 7:233-246. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1915b. Some additions to the North American ant-fauna. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34:389-421. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.