• Subspecies of Podomyrma ruficeps: Viehmeyer, 1914c: 523 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 238; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 120; Bolton, 1995b: 338.
• Status as species: Taylor, 1999: 174.
• Senior synonym of Podomyrma abdominalis pulchra: Taylor, 1999: 174.
• Senior synonym of Podomyrma tricolor: Taylor, 1999: 174.

Junior synonyms

• Podomyrma abdominalis pulchra Forel, 1901
• Podomyrma tricolor Clark, 1934

Obsolete combinations

• Podomyrma ruficeps gastralis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Emery, C. 1897. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale. XVIII. Formiche raccolte nella Nuova Guinea dal Dott. Lamberto Loria. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 38[=(2)18]:546-594.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1999. Nomenclatural changes in the Australasian ant genus Podomyrma Fredrick Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 34:173-174. PDF
• Viehmeyer, H. 1914c. Papuanische Ameisen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914:515-535. PDF