• Lectotype designation: Fischer et al., 2014: 86.
• Combination in Pheidologeton (Aneleus): Emery, 1900b: 327.
• Combination in Aneleus: Santschi, 1914b: 77.
• Combination in Aneleus (Aneleus): Emery, 1924f: 214.
• Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124.
• Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
• Status as species: Forel, 1910f: 431; Arnold, 1916: 254; Wheeler, 1922: 880; Emery, 1924f: 214; Arnold, 1926: 238; Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 300; Fischer et al., 2014: 86 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Carebara perpusilla arnoldianus: Fischer et al., 2014: 86.
• Senior synonym of Carebara perpusilla condecens: Fischer et al., 2014: 86.
• Senior synonym of Carebara perpusilla spinosa: Fischer et al., 2014: 86.

Junior synonyms

• Carebara perpusilla arnoldianus (Ettershank, 1966)
  Obsolete combination(s): Oligomyrmex perpusillus arnoldianus
• Carebara perpusilla condecens (Santschi, 1914)
  Obsolete combination(s): Aneleus perpusillus concedens
• Carebara perpusilla spinosa (Forel, 1907)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pheidologeton perpusillum spinosus

Obsolete combinations

• Aneleus perpusillus
• Oligomyrmex perpusillus
• Pheidologeton perpusillum

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1916. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part II. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:159-270. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
• Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:310-338. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. PDF
• Fischer, G.; Azorsa, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438:57-112. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.