• Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1673.
• Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 127.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 326; Wheeler, 1929h: 61; Teranishi, 1940: 56; Brown, 1949d: 6; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 105; Brown & Boisvert, 1979: 203; Terayama & Kubota, 1989: 790; Ogata, 1991b: 136; Morisita et al., 1992: 72; Bolton, 1995b: 316; Bolton, 2000: 464 (redescription); Zhou, 2001a: 83; Imai et al., 2003: 105; Lin & Wu, 2003: 63; Xu & Zhou, 2004: 442 (in key); Terayama, 2009: 138; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 52; Liu et al., 2015: 65; Tang et al., 2019: 37; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 128; Tang & Guénard, 2023: 108.

Obsolete combinations

• Pentastruma sauteri

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