• [Misspelled as tertacea by Borgmeier, 1927c: 90.]
• Combination in Pheidole: Mayr, 1886c: 360
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 397; Mayr, 1886c: 360; Dalla Torre, 1893: 97; Forel, 1895b: 129; Emery, 1922c: 110; Kempf, 1965: 185; Kempf, 1972b: 202.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole megacephala: Brown, 1981: 530; Brandão, 1991: 370; Bolton, 1995b: 331; Eguchi, 2001b: 77; Zhou, 2001a: 127; Eguchi, 2008: 56; Fischer & Fisher, 2013: 333; Sarnat et al., 2015: 50.

Obsolete combinations

• Atta testacea

Citations

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