• Boloponera in Ponerinae: Ponerini: Fisher, 2006: 112.
• Boloponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Plectroctena genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 162.
• Boloponera as genus: all authors.

Citations

• Fisher, B. L. 2006. Boloponera vicans gen.n. and sp.n. and two new species of the Plectroctena genus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:111-118. PDF
• Fisher, B. L.; Bolton, B. 2016. Ants of the world. Ants of Africa and Madagascar. A guide to the genera. Berkeley: University of California Press, ix + 503 pp.
• Hawkes, P. G. 2018. A new species of Boloponera from Sekhukhuneland, South Africa (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae). ZooKeys 798:23-44. 10.3897/zookeys.798.28606 PDF
• Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF