• [Unjustified emendation of spelling to penetratrix: Schulz, 1906: 155; Borgmeier, 1927c: 74.]
• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1958f: 435
• Junior synonym of Pseudomyrmex concolor: Kempf, 1967c: 5; Kempf, 1972b: 217; Ward, 1989a: 435; Bolton, 1995b: 375.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 58; Forel, 1895b: 123; Emery, 1921c: 30; Borgmeier, 1927c: 74; Ward, 1999b: 499 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex coronatus Wheeler, 1942: Ward, 1999b: 500.
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex latinodus coronatus Enzmann, 1944: Ward, 1999b: 500.
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex nigrescens: Ward, 1999b: 500

Junior synonyms

• Pseudomyrmex coronatus (Wheeler, 1942)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma latinoda coronata
• Pseudomyrmex latinodus coronatus (Enzmann, 1944)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma latinoda coronata
• Pseudomyrmex nigrescens (Forel, 1904)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma latinoda nigrescens

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma penetrator

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1958f. Estudos sôbre Pseudomyrmex. II. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica (n.s.)1:433-462.
• Kempf, W. W. 1967c. Estudos sôbre Pseudomyrmex. IV (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 12:1-12. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Schulz, W. A. 1906. Spolia hymenopterologica. Paderborn: Junfermannsche Buchhandlung, 355 pp. 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
• 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