• Lectotype designation: Ward, 1993: 157.
• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1972b: 216
• Subspecies of Pseudomyrmex belti: Kempf, 1972b: 216.
• Status as species: Ward, 1989a: 439; Ward, 1993: 152 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 376; Ward, 2017: 531.
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex belti venifica Enzmann, 1944: Brown, 1949a: 42; Ward, 1993: 152; Bolton, 1995b: 376; Ward, 2017: 531.

Junior synonyms

• Pseudomyrmex belti venifica (Enzmann, 1944)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma belti venifica

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma belti venefica

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949a. Synonymic and other notes on Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Psyche (Cambridge) 56:41-49. 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. 1993. Systematic studies on Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2:117-168. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 2017. A review of the Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus and Pseudomyrmex goeldii species groups: acacia-ants and relatives (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4227 (4):524-542. 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.4.3 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF