• Combination in Ceratopheidole: Emery, 1922c: 113.
• Combination in Pheidole: Bolton, 1995b: 318.
• Subspecies of Pheidole smythiesii: Rothney, 1903: 98; Bingham, 1903: 228; Emery, 1922c: 113; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 318.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole smythiesii: Eguchi, 2008: 87

Citations

• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
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• Eguchi, K. 2008. A revision of northern Vietnamese species of the ant genus Pheidole (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 1902:1-118. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902c. Myrmicinae nouveaux de l'Inde et de Ceylan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:165-249. PDF
• Rothney, G. A. J. 1903. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Barrackpore, Bengal. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903:93-116.