• Pheidolacanthinus in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871b: 333.
• Pheidolacanthinus in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 98 [Myrmicinae].
• Pheidolacanthinus as genus: Smith, 1871a: 333; Dalla Torre, 1893: 98.
• Pheidolacanthinus as subgenus of Pheidole: Emery, 1915g: 190; Forel, 1917: 241; Emery, 1921c: 81; Wheeler, 1922: 673; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 683.
• Pheidolacanthinus as junior synonym of Pheidole: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Smith, 1979: 1365; Snelling, 1981: 395; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 15; Ogata, 1991b: 89; Bolton, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 233.
• [Phidolacanthinus: unjustified emendation of spelling by Schulz, 1906: 155.]

Obsolete classifications

• Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus)

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