• Lectotype designation: Ward, 1985b: 234.
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1956: 386 (l.); Petralia & Vinson, 1980: 381 (l.)
• Combination in Leptalea: Smith, 1951c: 788.
• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1956: 386.
• Subspecies of Pseudomyrmex flavidulus: Enzmann, 1944: 66
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 159; Roger, 1863b: 25; Mayr, 1863a: 452; Smith, 1877b: 59; Mayr, 1886d: 464; Cresson, 1887: 262; Dalla Torre, 1893: 58; Emery, 1895d: 269; Pergande, 1896: 875; Forel, 1899b: 92; Wheeler, 1905c: 123; Emery, 1906c: 119; Forel, 1906d: 231; Wheeler, 1908h: 419 (redescription); Wheeler, 1910a: 562; Wheeler, 1913b: 483; Wheeler, 1913d: 113; Forel, 1913m: 215; Bruch, 1914: 225; Wheeler, 1916f: 324; Emery, 1921c: 33; Wheeler, 1922e: 4; Borgmeier, 1927c: 74; Smith, 1930a: 2; Gallardo, 1932a: 74 (redescription); Wheeler, 1932a: 4; Wheeler, 1933a: 62; Wheeler, 1934f: 138; Wheeler, 1935g: 17; Cole, 1937a: 98; Wheeler, 1937b: 446; Smith, 1947f: 544; Creighton, 1950a: 80; Smith, 1951c: 788; Smith, 1954c: 4; Brown, 1957e: 235; Creighton, 1957b: 20 (in key); Smith, 1958c: 112; Blum & Callahan, 1963: 69; Wilson, 1964b: 4; Smith, 1967a: 348; Kempf, 1972b: 222; Alayo, 1974: 9 (in key); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1346; Snelling & George, 1979: 38; Ward, 1985b: 234 (redescription); Zolessi et al., 1988: 5; Deyrup et al., 1989: 94; Brandão, 1991: 375; Ward, 1992: 80 (in table); Bolton, 1995b: 374; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 45; Deyrup, 2003: 46; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 67; Ward, 2005: 39; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 264; Deyrup, 2017: 42.

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma pallidus

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