• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1961a: 400
• Status as species: Enzmann, 1944: 70; Kempf, 1961a: 400; Kempf, 1972b: 215;.
• Junior synonym of Pseudomyrmex malignus: Ward, 1989a: 440; Brandão, 1991: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 371; Ward, 1999b: 496.

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma auripes

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Enzmann, E. V. 1944. Systematic notes on the genus Pseudomyrma. Psyche (Cambridge) 51:59-103. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1961a. Estudos sôbre Pseudomyrmex. III. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:369-408. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1989a. Systematic studies on pseudomyrmecine ants: revision of the Pseudomyrmex oculatus and P. subtilissimus species groups, with taxonomic comments on other species. Quaestiones Entomologicae 25:393-468. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1999b. Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhabiting ants. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 126:451-540. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922e. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45:1-16. PDF