• Wheeler & Bailey, 1920: 260 (l.).
• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1972b: 223.
• Subspecies of Pseudomyrmex sericeus: Wheeler & Bailey, 1920: 260; Emery, 1921c: 34; Wheeler, 1942: 177; Enzmann, 1944: 71; Kempf, 1972b: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 373.
• Status as species: Ward, 1999b: 520 (redescription); Ward, 2019: 1105.

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma sericea fortis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Enzmann, E. V. 1944. Systematic notes on the genus Pseudomyrma. Psyche (Cambridge) 51:59-103. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899f. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:81-104. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1999b. Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhabiting ants. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 126:451-540. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 2019. Subfamilia Pseudomyrmecinae. Capítulo 33. Pp. 1089-1113 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M.; Bailey, I. W. 1920. The feeding habits of pseudomyrmine and other ants. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (2)22:235-279. PDF