• Subspecies of Pogonomyrmex barbatus: Wheeler, 1902a: 98 (in key); Wheeler, 1902d: 391 (in key); Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Emery, 1921c: 46; Essig, 1926: 860; Olsen, 1934: 501; Cole, 1937b: 134; Creighton, 1950a: 119; Smith, 1951c: 792; Smith, 1958c: 114; Smith, 1967a: 351.
• Junior synonym of Pogonomyrmex barbatus: Cole, 1954b: 117.
• Junior synonym of Pogonomyrmex rugosus: Cole, 1968: 70; Smith, 1979: 1354; Snelling & George, 1979: 66; Bolton, 1995b: 341.

Citations

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