• Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1673.
• Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 123.
• Status as species: Bolton, 2000: 391 (redescription); Imai et al., 2003: 106; Dong & Kim, 2020: 10 (redescription); Dong & Kim, 2020: 19 (in key); Terayama, 2020: 223.

Obsolete combinations

• Smithistruma masukoi

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 2007. The ant tribe Dacetini: limits and constituent genera, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 99:1-191. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 33:1639-1689. PDF
• Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
• Dong, M.; Kim, S.-K. 2020. A taxonomic study on the genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Korea with a description of new species. Asian Myrmecology 12:e012001:1-21. 10.20362/am.012001 PDF
• Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. PDF
• Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K. 1998. A revision of the ant genus Smithistruma Brown of Japan, with descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological Science 1:277-287.
• Terayama, M. 2020. A new species of the ant genus Strumigenys Smith, 1860 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 26 (2):223-225. PDF