• Sympheidole in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Wheeler, 1910a: 140.
• Sympheidole in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Sympheidole in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Emery, 1914e: 40; Forel, 1917: 241; Emery, 1922c: 115; Wheeler, 1922: 661.
• Sympheidole as genus: Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Emery, 1914e: 40; Forel, 1917: 241; Emery, 1922c: 115; Wheeler, 1922: 661.
• Sympheidole as junior synonym of Pheidole: Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Smith, 1979: 1365; Snelling, 1981: 395; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 15; Ogata, 1991b: 89; Bolton, 1995b: 47; Tang et al., 1995: 54; Bolton, 2003: 233; Wilson, 2003a: 6.

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