• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 97; Emery, 1922c: 109; Eidmann, 1936a: 41; Kempf, 1961b: 503; Kempf, 1972b: 203; Bolton, 1995b: 331; Wilson, 2003a: 645 (redescription); Wetterer et al., 2016: 16; Longino, 2019: 62, 73; Serna et al., 2019: 1040 (redescription); Camargo-Vanegas & Guerrero, 2020: 16.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole lacerta: Wilson, 2003a: 645; Longino, 2019: 62.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole transversostriata nigridens: Wilson, 2003a: 645; Longino, 2019: 62.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole scalaris: Longino, 2019: 62.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole lacerta Wheeler, 1922
• Pheidole scalaris Wilson, 2003
• Pheidole transversostriata nigridens Forel, 1901

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Camargo-Vanegas, J. J.; Guerrero, R. J. 2020. Las hormigas Pheidole (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) en el bosque seco tropical de Santa Marta, Colombia. Revista Colombiana de Entomología 46:e8433. 10.25100/socolen.v46i2.8433 PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Eidmann, H. 1936a. Ökologisch-faunistische Studien an südbrasilianischen Ameisen. [part]. Arbeiten über Physiologische und Angewandte Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem 3:26-48. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1961b. A survey of the ants of the soil fauna in Surinam (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:481-524. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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
• Mayr, G. 1887. Südamerikanische Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 37:511-632. 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
• Wetterer, J. K.; Lubertazzi, D.; Rana, J. D.; Wilson, E. O. 2016. Ants of Barbados. Breviora 548:1-34. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.