• Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 143.
• Subspecies of Solenopsis globularia: Creighton, 1930b: 116; Kempf, 1972b: 236; Alayo, 1974: 35; Bolton, 1995b: 391.
• Junior synonym of Solenopsis globularia: Forel, 1885a: 376; Dalla Torre, 1893: 77; Forel, 1895b: 130; Wheeler, 1908a: 130; Emery, 1922c: 199; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 164.

Obsolete combinations

• Solenopsis steinheili

Citations

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• 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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• Forel, A. 1881. Die Ameisen der Antille St. Thomas. Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Verein 5:1-16. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
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• Pacheco, J. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 501 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1908a. The ants of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:117-158. PDF