• Combination in Euponera (Brachyponera): Emery, 1901b: 47
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 302
• Combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 110
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 32; Emery, 1901b: 49; Emery, 1911e: 84; Wheeler, 1922: 777; Collingwood, 1985: 240; Bolton, 1995b: 302; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 310; Collingwood & van Harten, 2005: 74; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 220; Borowiec, 2014: 141.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla ambigua

Citations

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