• Subspecies of Pheidole flavens: Emery, 1894d: 157; Emery, 1896g: 81 (in key); Forel, 1897b: 300; Forel, 1901j: 366; Forel, 1901m: 82; Forel, 1905e: 159; Wheeler, 1905c: 125; Wheeler, 1908a: 134; Wheeler, 1922e: 6; Emery, 1922c: 107; Smith, 1937: 842; Smith, 1951c: 802; Kempf, 1972b: 192; Bolton, 1995b: 329.
• Status as species: Wilson, 2003a: 506 (redescription); Longino, 2009: 74; Wetterer et al., 2016: 15; Serna et al., 2019: 1015.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole tayrona: Longino, 2009: 74.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole tayrona Wilson, 2003

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole flavens sculptior

Citations

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