• Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1673.
• Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 121.
• Status as species: Brown, 1964b: 194; Kempf, 1972b: 231; Bolton, 1995b: 384; Bolton, 2000: 198 (redescription); Guerrero et al., 2018: 254; Pérez-Pedraza & Fernández, 2019: 1085.

Obsolete combinations

• Smithistruma hyphata

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.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953g. Revisionary studies in the ant tribe Dacetini. American Midland Naturalist 50:1-137. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1964b. The ant genus Smithistruma: a first supplement to the World revision (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 89:183-200. PDF
• Guerrero, R. J.; Fernández, F.; Escárraga, M. E.; Pérez-Pedraza, L.; Serna, F.; Mackay, W. P.; Sandoval, V.; Veraga, V.; Suárez, D.; García, E. I.; Sánchez, A.; Meneses, A.D.; Tocora, M.C.; Sosa-Calvo, J. 2018. New records of myrmicine ants for Colombia. Revista Colombiana de Entomología 44:238-259. 10.25100/socolen.v44i2.7115 PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Pérez-Pedraza, L. F.; Fernández, F. 2019. Género Strumigenys. Capítulo 32. Pp. 1069-1088 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF