• Combination in Pheidole (Decapheidole): Forel, 1912g: 237
• Subspecies of Pheidole flavens: Forel, 1895b: 142.
• Status as species: Emery, 1896g: 80 (in key); Emery, 1922c: 112; Borgmeier, 1927c: 78; Kempf, 1972b: 183; Kempf, 1972d: 463; Brandão, 1991: 368; Bolton, 1995b: 327; Wilson, 2003a: 553 (redescription); LaPolla & Cover, 2005: 371; Longino, 2009: 60; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 259; Longino, 2019: 68; Serna et al., 2019: 993 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Pheidole breviscapa: Longino, 2009: 61.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole decem: Wilson, 2003a: 553; Longino, 2009: 61.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole emersoni: Wilson, 2003a: 553; Longino, 2009: 61.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole breviscapa Forel, 1899
  Obsolete combination(s): Pheidole flavens breviscapa
• Pheidole decem Forel, 1901
• Pheidole emersoni Wheeler, 1922

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole flavens perpusilla

Citations

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• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
• Forel, A. 1912g. Formicides néotropiques. Part III. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae (suite). Genres Cremastogaster et Pheidole. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 19:211-237. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972d. A study of some Neotropical ants of genus Pheidole Westwood. I. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 15:449-464. PDF
• LaPolla, J. S.; Cover, S. P. 2005. New species of Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Guyana, with a list of species known from the country. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 131(3+4):365-374. PDF
• Longino, J. T. 2009. Additions to the taxonomy of New World Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2181:1-90. 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
• 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
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