• [Also described as new by Wheeler, 1922: 177.]
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954a: 143 (l.)
• [Note: the male described by Bolton, 1969: 14 as Carebara termitolestes is correctly Carebara distincta.]
• Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 177; Emery, 1924f: 221; Ettershank, 1966: 129; Bolton & Belshaw, 1993: 189 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 311.

Obsolete combinations

• Paedalgus termitolestes

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1969. Male of Paedalgus termitolestes W. M. Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Nigerian Entomologist's Magazine 2:14-16. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B.; Belshaw, R. 1993. Taxonomy and biology of the supposedly lestobiotic ant genus Paedalgus (Hym.: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 18:181-189. 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
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1954a ("1953"). The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribe Pheidologetini. Psyche (Cambridge) 60:129-147. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1918c. A study of some ant larvae, with a consideration of the origin and meaning of the social habit among insects. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 57:293-343. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.