• Combination in Pristomyrmex: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 471
• Status as species: Smith, 1871a: 326; Dalla Torre, 1893: 118; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 471; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 131; Bolton, 1995b: 366; Wang, 2003a: 525 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Pristomyrmex castaneicolor: Wang, 2003a: 525.
• Senior synonym of Pristomyrmex castor: Wang, 2003a: 525.
• Senior synonym of Pristomyrmex laevis: Wang, 2003a: 525.
• Senior synonym of Pristomyrmex parumpunctatus: Wang, 2003a: 525.

Junior synonyms

• Pristomyrmex castaneicolor Donisthorpe, 1949
• Pristomyrmex castor Donisthorpe, 1944
• Pristomyrmex laevis (Smith, 1865)
  Obsolete combination(s): Solenopsis laevis
• Pristomyrmex parumpunctatus Emery, 1887

Obsolete combinations

• Myrmica umbripennis

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
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
• Smith, F. 1863a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Mysol, Ceram, Waigiou, Bouru and Timor. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 7:6-48. PDF
• Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF
• Wang, M. 2003a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Pristomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157:383-542. PDF