• Lectotype designation: Johnson, 2015: 56.
• Johnson, 2015: 57 (eq.).
• Subspecies of Pogonomyrmex cunicularius: Santschi, 1931f: 274 (in key); Gallardo, 1932c: 123 (redescription)
• Junior synonym of Pogonomyrmex cunicularius: Kusnezov, 1951e: 251; Kempf, 1972b: 208; Bolton, 1995b: 341.
• Status as species: Johnson, 2015: 56 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Pogonomyrmex carnivora: Johnson, 2015: 56

Junior synonyms

• Pogonomyrmex carnivora Santschi, 1925
  Obsolete combination(s): Pogonomyrmex cunicularius carnivora

Obsolete combinations

• Pogonomyrmex cunicularius serpens

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Gallardo, A. 1932c. Las hormigas de la República Argentina. Subfamilia Mirmicinas, segunda sección Eumyrmicinae, tribu Myrmicini (F. Smith), género Pogonomyrmex Mayr. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 37:89-170. PDF
• Johnson, R. A. 2015. A taxonomic revision of South American species of the seed-harvester ant genus Pogonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Part I. Zootaxa 4029 (1):1-142. 10.11646/zootaxa.4029.1.1 PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Kusnezov, N. 1951e. El género Pogonomyrmex Mayr (Hym., Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 11:227-333. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1922c. Myrmicines, dolichodérines et autres formicides néotropiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 54:345-378. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1931f. Contribution à l'étude des fourmis de l'Argentine. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 112:273-282. PDF