• Combination in Pheidole: Mayr, 1886c: 360.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole emeryi, Pheidole rubra: Kempf, 1965: 183; of Pheidole fumipennis: Brown, 1981: 527; of Pheidole alsia, Pheidole crassipes: Wilson, 2003a: 769.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole crassipes Mayr, 1887
• Pheidole emeryi Mayr, 1887
• Pheidole emeryi alsia Santschi, 1923
• Pheidole fumipennis (Smith, 1858)
• Pheidole rubra (Smith, 1858)

Citations

• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1981. Preliminary contributions toward a revision of the ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Part I. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 54:523-530. PDF
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• Kempf, W. W. 1965. Nota preliminar sôbre algumas formigas neotrópicas, descritas por Frederick Smith (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 25:181-186. PDF
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• Mayr, G. 1886c. Notizen über die Formiciden-Sammlung des British Museum in London. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36:353-368. PDF
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• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
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• Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.
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