• Lectotype designation: Ward, 1989a: 432.
• [Also described as new by Emery, 1894l: 53.]
• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1972b: 224
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 59; Forel, 1899b: 88; Emery, 1906c: 119; Mann, 1916: 426; Emery, 1921c: 34; Wheeler, 1934f: 139; Wheeler, 1935g: 17; Wheeler, 1942: 182; Enzmann, 1944: 70; Kempf, 1972b: 224; Ward, 1989a: 432 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 375; Ward, 1993: 161 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 376.

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma subtilissima

Citations

• 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
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• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF