• Subspecies of Pheidole fabricator: Emery, 1922c: 104; Kempf, 1972b: 190; Bolton, 1995b: 327.
• Status as species: Wilson, 2003a: 734 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 120.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole wheeleri: Wilson, 2003a: 734.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole wheeleri Mann, 1916

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole fabricator polita

Citations

• Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 26:137-241. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.