• Wheeler, 1908h: 463 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953b: 74 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972b: 244 (l.); Taber & Cokendolpher, 1988: 95 (k.)
• Status as species: Forel, 1901d: 130; Wheeler, 1904e: 270; Wheeler, 1908h: 462 (redescription); Wheeler, 1910a: 564; Wheeler, 1915b: 409; Emery, 1922c: 101; Essig, 1926: 859; Wheeler, 1934f: 134; Wheeler, 1935g: 17; Creighton, 1950a: 180; Smith, 1951c: 802; Cole, 1953g: 298; Smith, 1958c: 122; Gregg, 1959: 10 (in key); Beck et al., 1967: 72; Smith, 1967a: 354; Kempf, 1972b: 195; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1370; Snelling & George, 1979: 104; Allred, 1982: 494; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 44; MacKay et al., 1988: 95; Snelling, 1992b: 124 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 323; Ward, 2000a: 94 (redescription); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 183; Wilson, 2003a: 302 (redescription); Ward, 2005: 66.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole hyatti ecitonodora: Creighton, 1950a: 180; Smith, 1958c: 122; Gregg, 1959: 22; Smith, 1979: 1370; Snelling & George, 1979: 104; Bolton, 1995b: 323; Ward, 2000a: 94; Wilson, 2003a: 302.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole hyatti solitanea: Snelling & George, 1979: 104; Ward, 2000a: 94; Wilson, 2003a: 302
• Senior synonym of Pheidole vaslitii: Ward, 2000a: 94; Wilson, 2003a: 302.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole hyatti ecitonodora Wheeler, 1908
• Pheidole hyatti solitanea Wheeler, 1915
• Pheidole vaslitii Pergande, 1896

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