• Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1673.
• Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 115.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 384; Bolton, 2000: 125 (redescription); Gray et al., 2018: 401; Booher, 2021: 222.

Obsolete combinations

• Smithistruma arizonica

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 2007. The ant tribe Dacetini: limits and constituent genera, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 99:1-191. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 33:1639-1689. PDF
• Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
• Booher, D. B. 2021. The ant genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in western North America north of Mexico. Zootaxa 5061 (2):201-248. 10.11646/zootaxa.5061.2.1 PDF
• Gray, K. W.; Cover, S. P.; Johnson, R. A.; Rabeling, C. 2018. The dacetine ant Strumigenys arizonica, an apparent obligate commensal of the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex arizonensis in southwestern North America. Insectes Sociaux 65:401-410. 10.1007/s00040-018-0625-8 PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1988. Mesic elements in the western Nearctic ant fauna: taxonomic and biological notes on Amblyopone, Proceratium, and Smithistruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 61:102-124. PDF