• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1956: 380 (l.)
• Status as species: Creighton, 1954: 9; Creighton, 1957b: 20 (in key); Smith, 1958c: 112; Smith, 1967a: 348; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1346; Snelling & George, 1979: 37; Ward, 1985b: 229 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 371; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 44; Ward, 2005: 39; Ward & Branstetter, 2022: 10.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Creighton, W. S. 1953b ("1952"). Pseudomyrmex apache, a new species from the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 59:131-142. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1954. Additional studies on Pseudomyrmex apache (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 61:9-15. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1957b ("1955"). Observations on Pseudomyrmex elongata Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 63:17-20. PDF
• Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
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• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
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• Snelling, R. R.; George, C. D. 1979. The taxonomy, distribution and ecology of California desert ants. Report to California Desert Plan Program, Bureau of Land Management. Riverside: U.S. Dept. Interior, 335 + 89 pp.
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• Ward, P. S.; Branstetter, M. G. 2022. Species paraphyly and social parasitism: phylogenomics, morphology, and geography clarify the evolution of the Pseudomyrmex elongatulus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Mesoamerican ant clade. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 4:1-31. 10.1093/isd/iaxb025 PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1956. The ant larvae of the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 49:374-398. PDF