• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1990a: 464 (l.)
• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1961a: 400
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1942: 170; Enzmann, 1944: 75; Kempf, 1961a: 400; Kempf, 1972b: 221; Ward, 1989a: 440; Brandão, 1991: 375; Ward, 1992: 80 (in table); Bolton, 1995b: 374; Ward, 1999b: 496 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex auripes: Ward, 1989a: 440; Brandão, 1991: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 374; Ward, 1999b: 496.
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex malignus cholerica: Ward, 1989a: 440; Brandão, 1991: 376; Bolton, 1995b: 374; Ward, 1999b: 496.
• Senior synonym of Pseudomyrmex malignus crucians: Ward, 1989a: 440; Brandão, 1991: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 374; Ward, 1999b: 496.

Junior synonyms

• Pseudomyrmex auripes (Wheeler, 1922)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma auripes
• Pseudomyrmex malignus cholerica (Wheeler, 1921)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma maligna cholerica
• Pseudomyrmex malignus crucians (Wheeler, 1921)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pseudomyrma maligna crucians

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma maligna

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• Enzmann, E. V. 1944. Systematic notes on the genus Pseudomyrma. Psyche (Cambridge) 51:59-103. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1961a. Estudos sôbre Pseudomyrmex. III. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:369-408. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1989a. Systematic studies on pseudomyrmecine ants: revision of the Pseudomyrmex oculatus and P. subtilissimus species groups, with taxonomic comments on other species. Quaestiones Entomologicae 25:393-468. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1992. Ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Dominican amber, with a synopsis of the extant Antillean species. Psyche (Cambridge) 99:55-85. PDF
• Ward, P. S. 1999b. Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhabiting ants. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 126:451-540. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1990a ("1989"). Notes on ant larvae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 115:457-473. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1921f. The Tachigalia ants. Zoologica (New York) 3:137-168. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF