• Mayr, 1867a: 96 (s.)
• Combination in Pheidole: Mayr, 1867a: 96.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 434; Mayr, 1867a: 96 (redescription); Smith, 1871a: 326; Mayr, 1879: 674 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 96; Emery, 1901i: 567; Emery, 1922c: 98; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 468; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 149; Bolton, 1995b: 329.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole mordax: Mayr, 1867a: 96; Dalla Torre, 1893: 96; Emery, 1922c: 98; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 472; Bolton, 1995b: 329.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole mordax Smith, 1863

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica ruficeps

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Mayr, G. 1879. Beiträge zur Ameisen-Fauna Asiens. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 28:645-686. PDF
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• Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF