• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 155; Smith, 1862b: 32.
• Junior synonym of Pseudomyrmex filiformis: Roger, 1862c: 289; Roger, 1863b: 24; Mayr, 1863a: 452; Smith, 1877b: 59; Dalla Torre, 1893: 56; Forel, 1895b: 122; Forel, 1899b: 86; Forel, 1911g: 278; Wheeler, 1919k: 125; Emery, 1921c: 32; Kempf, 1972b: 218; Ward, 1989a: 438; Bolton, 1995b: 371.

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma cephalica

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Smith, F. 1855c. Descriptions of some species of Brazilian ants belonging to the genera Pseudomyrma, Eciton and Myrmica (with observations on their economy by Mr. H. W. Bates). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2)3:156-169. PDF
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• Smith, F. 1862b. Descriptions of new species of aculeate Hymenoptera, collected at Panama by R. W. Stretch, Esq., with a list of described species, and the various localities where they have previously occurred. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3)1:29-44. PDF
• Smith, F. 1877b. Descriptions of new species of the genera Pseudomyrma and Tetraponera, belonging to the family Myrmicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877:57-72. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919k. A singular neotropical ant (Pseudomyrma filiformis Fabricius). Psyche (Cambridge) 26:124-131. PDF