<ref name="Fischer_et_al_2012">{{cite journal |first1=G. |last1=Fischer |first2=F. |last2=Hita Garcia |first3=M. K. |last3=Peters |year=2012 |title=Taxonomy of the ant genus ''Pheidole'' Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical zoogeographic region: definition of species groups and systematic revision of the ''Pheidole pulchella'' group |url=https://antcat.org/documents/5660/fischer_et_al_2012_zootaxa-pheidole-species-groups-pulchella-group.pdf |journal=Zootaxa |publisher= |volume=3232 |issue= |pages=1–43 |doi= }}</ref>