• Subspecies of Pheidole flavens: Forel, 1914e: 12; Emery, 1922e: 107; Kempf, 1972a: 192; Bolton, 1995b: 326
• Junior synonym of Pheidole flavens: Wilson, 2003a: 419.
• Status as species: Sarnat et al., 2015: 57 (redescription); Serna et al., 2019: 992 (redescription); Longino, 2019: 77.

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole flavens navigans

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1922e. Quelques fourmis nouvelles minuscules. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 19:107-112. PDF
• Forel, A. 1901m. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma- und Echinopla-Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 18:43-82. PDF
• Forel, A. 1914e. Quelques fourmis de Colombie. Pp. 9-14 in: Fuhrmann, O.; Mayor, E. 1914. Voyage d'exploration scientifique en Colombie. Mémoires de la Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles 5(2):1-1090. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972a. Dedication to Fr. Thomas Borgmeier, O.F.M., Sc.D., on his 80th birthday, October 31, 1972. Studia Entomologica 15:1-2. PDF
• Longino, J. T. 2019. Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Middle American wet forest. Zootaxa 4599:1-126. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4599.1.1 PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Fischer, G.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P. 2015. Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution. ZooKeys 543:1-109. 10.3897/zookeys.543.6050 PDF
• Serna, F. J.; Suárez, D.; Pérez, A.L. 2019. Género Pheidole. Capítulo 30. Pp. 917-1053 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.