Original description as Laetacara araguaiae:
ZooBank:AA0E9F5E-AEA6-45E2-8C00-9A12CF234570.
- Ottoni, Felipe & Wilson Costa. 2009. "Description of a new species of Laetacara KULLANDER, 1986 from central Brazil and re-description of Laetacara dorsigera (HECKEL, 1840) (Labroidei: Cichlidae: Cichlasomatinae)". Vertebrate Zoology. 59 (1) 2009; pp. 41-48 (crc01816)
Conservation: Laetacara araguaiae is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.