• Wheeler, 1928d: 114 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954c: 131 (l.); Imai, 1966b: 119 (k.)
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 62; Forel, 1903a: 696; Forel, 1907d: 17; Forel, 1911g: 266; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 128; Emery, 1924f: 234; Wheeler, 1927d: 7; Wheeler, 1928c: 25; Wheeler, 1928d: 114; Wheeler, 1929h: 61; Wheeler, 1930b: 103; Wheeler, 1930k: 69; Stitz, 1934: 2; Eidmann, 1941a: 20; Azuma, 1951: 87; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 123; Azuma, 1953: 3; Baltazar, 1966: 254; Collingwood, 1976a: 303; Azuma, 1977a: 114; Onoyama, 1980a: 198; Collingwood, 1981: 27; Itow et al., 1984: 87; Ogata, 1991b: 124; Wu & Wang, 1992c: 1309; Morisita et al., 1992: 57; Wang, 1992: 679; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 85; Tang et al., 1995: 62; Lin & Wu, 1998: 94 (redescription); Zhou, 2001a: 107; Xu & Zhang, 2002: 69 (in key); Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 219; Imai et al., 2003: 111; Lin & Wu, 2003: 64; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 41 (error); Zhou, 2006: 583 (error).
• Junior synonym of Pristomyrmex punctatus: Wang, 2003a: 410; Radchenko, 2005b: 146; Terayama, 2009: 189.

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