• Wheeler, 1924c: 246 (m.)
• Combination in Aneleus (Aneleus): Emery, 1924f: 214.
• Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124.
• Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
• Subspecies of Carebara pygmaea: Wheeler, 1924c: 246; Emery, 1924f: 214; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 154.
• Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 300.
• Junior synonym of Carebara pygmaea: Fischer et al., 2014: 72; Wimolsuthikul et al., 2024: 93.

Obsolete combinations

• Carebara pygmaea simalurensis
• Pheidologeton pygmaea simalurensis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. PDF
• Fischer, G.; Azorsa, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438:57-112. PDF
• Forel, A. 1915a. Fauna Simalurensis. Hymenoptera Aculeata, Fam. Formicidae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 58:22-43. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1924c. Ants of Krakatau and other islands in the Sunda Strait. Treubia 5:239-258. PDF
• Wimolsuthikul, C.; Yamane, S.; Samung, Y.; Jaitrong, W. 2024. A revision of the Carebara pygmaea (Emery, 1887) species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Thailand. Zootaxa 5481 (1):79-100. 10.11646/zootaxa.5481.1.5 PDF