• Forel, 1899f: 86 (w.)
• Combination in Pseudomyrma: Smith, 1858a: 156.
• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1972b: 222.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 156; Roger, 1863b: 25; Mayr, 1863a: 452; Smith, 1877b: 59; Dalla Torre, 1893: 58; Forel, 1899b: 86; Emery, 1921c: 33; Kempf, 1972b: 222; Ward, 1989a: 442; Brandão, 1991: 375; Ward, 1992: 81 (in table); Bolton, 1995b: 375; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 126; Ward, 2019: 1107.
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex icterica: Ward, 1989a: 442; Brandão, 1991: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 375.
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex simoides: Ward, 1989a: 442; Brandão, 1991: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 375.
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex testacea: Ward, 1989a: 442; Brandão, 1991: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 375.

Junior synonyms

• Pseudomyrmex icterica (Wheeler, 1922)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma icterica
• Pseudomyrmex simoides (Forel, 1911)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma simoides
• Pseudomyrmex testacea (Smith, 1852)
  Obsolete combination(s): Tetraponera testacea

Obsolete combinations

• Formica perboscii
• Myrmex perboscii

Citations

• Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899f. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:81-104. PDF
• Guérin-Méneville, F. E. 1844a. Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux. Insectes. Paris: J. B. Baillière, 576 pp. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
• Smith, F. 1877b. Descriptions of new species of the genera Pseudomyrma and Tetraponera, belonging to the family Myrmicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877:57-72. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1989a. Systematic studies on pseudomyrmecine ants: revision of the Pseudomyrmex oculatus and P. subtilissimus species groups, with taxonomic comments on other species. Quaestiones Entomologicae 25:393-468. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1992. Ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Dominican amber, with a synopsis of the extant Antillean species. Psyche (Cambridge) 99:55-85. 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