• Combination in Pheidole (Allopheidole): Forel, 1912g: 237
• Status as species: Forel, 1899b: 76; Wheeler, 1908h: 431; Forel, 1912g: 237; Wheeler, 1915b: 404; Emery, 1922c: 105; Creighton, 1950a: 181.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole tepicana: Creighton & Gregg, 1955: 24; Smith, 1958c: 124; Gregg, 1959: 31; Kempf, 1972b: 202; Smith, 1979: 1374; Bolton, 1995b: 324; Wilson, 2003a: 601.

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