• [Misspelled as rhomboidea by Santschi, 1920h: 166.]
• [Misspelled as rhomboida by Santschi, 1925f: 83.]
• Bingham, 1903: 250 (q.)
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 95; Mayr, 1897: 427; Forel, 1902c: 178 (in key); Forel, 1902g: 544; Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 250; Forel, 1903f: 405; Forel, 1906b: 88; Forel, 1907d: 22; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 339; Santschi, 1920h: 166; Emery, 1921c: 93; Wheeler, 1923c: 1; Santschi, 1924c: 105; Santschi, 1925f: 83; Stärcke, 1926a: 87 (in key); Wheeler, 1927d: 2; Wheeler, 1927h: 86; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 390; Wheeler, 1928c: 10; Mukerjee, 1934: 7; Menozzi, 1939a: 299 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 148; Tang et al., 1995: 59.
• Subspecies of Pheidole nodus: Wheeler, 1929g: 3; Wheeler, 1930k: 63; Stitz, 1934: 2; Santschi, 1937h: 371; Eidmann, 1941a: 17.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole nodus: Yasumatsu, 1962: 96; Ogata, 1982: 196; Bolton, 1995b: 328; Zhou, 2001a: 128; Eguchi, 2008: 59; Sarnat et al., 2015: 60.

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole rhombinoda

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