Taxonomic history
[Also described as new by Forel, 1907i PDF: 82 (s.w.).].Subspecies of Pheidole megacephala: Emery, 1915i PDF: 236, 244; Emery, 1921f: 85; Wheeler, 1922: 132, 813; Menozzi, 1930b: 81; Bolton, 1995b: 323.Subspecies of Pheidole rotundata: Forel, 1913a: 128.