• Bothroponera in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 713 (in key) [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 13 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 35 [Ponerinae].
• Bothroponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Bothroponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Emery, 1911e: 75 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Forel, 1917: 237 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Wheeler, 1922: 648; subsequent authors.
• Bothroponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Odontomachus genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 72.
• Bothroponera as subgenus of Ponera: Emery, 1895l: 767; Emery, 1897: 551; Forel, 1900f: 325.
• Bothroponera as subgenus of Pachycondyla: Emery, 1901b: 42; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 75; Santschi, 1914b: 50; Arnold, 1915: 55; Forel, 1917: 237; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628.
• Bothroponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b: 179 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Tang et al., 1995: 39; Bolton, 2003: 166; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 3.
• Bothroponera as genus: Mayr, 1862: 717; Mayr, 1863a: 397; Roger, 1863b: 16; Mayr, 1865: 13; Mayr, 1876: 87; Forel, 1891c: 127; Dalla Torre, 1893: 35; Bingham, 1903: 95; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wheeler, 1918c: 299 (footnote); Wheeler, 1922: 648; Wheeler & Chapman, 1925: 67; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 49; Bernard, 1953b: 187; Bolton, 1973a: 334; Taylor, 1987a: 9; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 21; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Joma & Mackay, 2013: 2; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 72.
• [Bothrponera: incorrect subsequent spelling by Forel, 1917: 237.]

Obsolete classifications

• Pachycondyla (Bothroponera)
• Ponera (Bothroponera)

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