• Status as species: Mayr, 1886d: 458; Mayr, 1887: 596 (in key); Cresson, 1887: 262; Dalla Torre, 1893: 88; Emery, 1895d: 293; Wheeler, 1910a: 564; Emery, 1922c: 105; Buren, 1944a: 285; Creighton, 1950a: 170; Smith, 1951c: 800; Cole, 1953g: 297; Cole, 1956c: 113; Smith, 1958c: 120; Gregg, 1959: 16 (in key); Beck et al., 1967: 72; Smith, 1967a: 353; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1367; Allred, 1982: 492; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 140; MacKay et al., 1988: 95 (in key); Wheeler et al., 1994: 304; Bolton, 1995b: 318; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 176; Wilson, 2003a: 561 (redescription); Coovert, 2005: 54; Ward, 2005: 66; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 71; Deyrup, 2017: 83.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole vinelandica buccalis: Cole, 1956c: 114 (in text); Smith, 1967a: 353; Wilson, 2003a: 561.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole hayesi: Creighton, 1950a: 171; Smith, 1958c: 120; Gregg, 1959: 17; Smith, 1979: 1367; Bolton, 1995b: 318; Wilson, 2003a: 561.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole vinelandica laeviuscula: Wilson, 2003a: 561.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole longula: Wilson, 2003a: 561.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole vinelandica nebrascensis: Wilson, 2003a: 561.
• Senior synonym of Pheidole vinelandica: Wilson, 2003a: 561.
• Material of the unavailable names Pheidole vinelandica longula castanea, Pheidole vinelandica longula huachucana referred here by Wilson, 2003a: 561.

Junior synonyms

• Pheidole hayesi Smith, 1924
• Pheidole longula Emery, 1895
  Obsolete combination(s): Pheidole vinelandica longula
• Pheidole vinelandica Forel, 1886
  Obsolete combination(s): Pheidole bicarinata vinelandica
• Pheidole vinelandica buccalis Wheeler, 1908
• Pheidole vinelandica laeviuscula Emery, 1895
• Pheidole vinelandica nebrascensis Forel, 1922

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