• Combination in Cardiocondyla: Smith, 1955e: 305.
• Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1949b: 494; Donisthorpe, 1950a: 338; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 137.
• Junior synonym of Cardiocondyla paradoxa: Smith, 1955e: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 132; Seifert, 2023a: 50.

Obsolete combinations

• Pheidole brevispinosa

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
• Donisthorpe, H. 1948d. A third instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:589-604. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1950a. An eighth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)3:338-341. PDF
• Seifert, B. 2023a. The ant genus Cardiocondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): the species groups with Oriental and Australasian origin. Diversity 15 (1): 25:56 pp. [online early] 10.3390/d15010025 PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1955e. The correct taxonomic status of Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) brevispinosa Donisthorpe (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 57:305. PDF