• Wang, 2003a: 458 (q.m.)
• Combination in Xiphomyrmex: Wheeler, 1922: 908; Emery, 1924f: 287.
• Combination in Hylidris: Weber, 1952a: 18.
• Combination in Pristomyrmex: Santschi, 1916a: 51; Santschi, 1923e: 286; Bolton, 1981b: 286.
• Status as species: Santschi, 1916a: 51; Wheeler, 1922: 907; Santschi, 1923e: 286; Santschi, 1924b: 216; Emery, 1924f: 287; Menozzi, 1942a: 173; Weber, 1952a: 18; Bernard, 1953b: 251; Bolton, 1981b: 286 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wang, 2003a: 456 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Pristomyrmex laevigatus: Bolton, 1981b: 286; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wang, 2003a: 456.

Junior synonyms

• Pristomyrmex laevigatus (Weber, 1952)
  Obsolete combination(s): Hylidris laevigatus

Obsolete combinations

• Xiphomyrmex orbiceps

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 43:245-307. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1942a. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zoologischer Anzeiger 140:164-182. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1916a. Description d'un nouveau Formicide (Hym.) de l'Afrique occidentale. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1916:50-51. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1923e. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1924b. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides africains et notes diverses. II. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 12:195-224. PDF
• Wang, M. 2003a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Pristomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157:383-542. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1952a. Studies on African Myrmicinae, I (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1548:1-32. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.