• Combination in Pheidole (Decapheidole): Forel, 1912g: 237
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1905c: 124; Emery, 1922c: 112; Wheeler, 1922e: 8; Kempf, 1972b: 183; Bolton, 1995b: 320.
• Junior synonym of Pheidole perpusilla: Wilson, 2003a: 553; Longino, 2009: 61.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Forel, A. 1912g. Formicides néotropiques. Part III. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae (suite). Genres Cremastogaster et Pheidole. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 19:211-237. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Longino, J. T. 2009. Additions to the taxonomy of New World Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2181:1-90. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1905c. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:79-135. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922e. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45:1-16. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 2003a. Pheidole in the New World. A dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, [ix] + 794 pp.