• Wheeler & Bailey, 1920: 259 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1956: 382 (l.)
• Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1956: 382
• Status as species: Forel, 1906d: 228; Wheeler, 1907b: 272; Forel, 1912c: 83; Mann, 1916: 424; Emery, 1921c: 31; Mann, 1922: 20; Wheeler, 1923a: 3; Borgmeier, 1927c: 70; Wheeler, 1942: 164; Enzmann, 1944: 74; Kempf, 1961a: 400; Kempf, 1972b: 216.
• Junior synonym of Pseudomyrmex viduus: Ward, 1989a: 445; Brandão, 1991: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 371; Ward, 1999b: 510.

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudomyrma caroli

Citations

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