Taxonomic history
Taber & Cokendolpher, 1988 PDF: 95 (k.).Subspecies of Pheidole crassicornis: Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 564; Emery, 1922c PDF: 100; Smith, 1951c PDF: 801.Status as species: Creighton, 1950a PDF: 187; Smith, 1958c PDF: 123; Gregg, 1959 PDF: 10 (in key); Smith, 1979: 1372; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 41 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 328; Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 190; Wilson, 2003a: 159 (redescription).