• Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1672.
• Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 130.
• Status as species: Brandão, 1991: 346; Bolton, 1995b: 211; Bolton, 2000: 237 (redescription); Sosa-Calvo et al., 2010: 42 (in key); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 122; Pérez-Pedraza & Fernández, 2019: 1087.

Obsolete combinations

• Gymnomyrmex villiersi

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
• 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.
• 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.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Pérez-Pedraza, L. F.; Fernández, F. 2019. Género Strumigenys. Capítulo 32. Pp. 1069-1088 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Perrault, G. H. 1986a. Gymnomyrmex villiersi, nouvelle espèce de Guyane (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revue Française d'Entomologie (Nouvelle Série) 8:1-4. PDF
• Sosa-Calvo, J.; Schultz, T. R.; LaPolla, J. S. 2010. A review of the dacetine ants of Guyana (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19:12-43. PDF