• [Pseudoponera also described as new by Emery, 1901b: 42. Type-species not Ponera amblyops: unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1901b: 42; repeated in Wheeler, 1911g: 171; Wheeler, 1922: 779; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 723.]
• Pseudoponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Pseudoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1911e: 86 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Forel, 1917: 238; all subsequent authors.
• Pseudoponera as subgenus of Pachycondyla: Emery, 1900b: 314; Emery, 1901b: 42.
• Pseudoponera as subgenus of Euponera: Forel, 1900d: 141; Forel, 1900h: 398; Emery, 1909d: 364; Wheeler, 1910a: 135.
• Pseudoponera as genus: Bingham, 1903: 91; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 86; Forel, 1917: 238; Wheeler, 1922: 649; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 722; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 74.
• Pseudoponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b: 184 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 2003: 167.
• Pseudoponera revived from synonymy: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 205.

Junior synonyms

• Trachymesopus Emery, 1911
  Obsolete classification(s): Euponera (Trachymesopus)

Obsolete classifications

• Euponera (Pseudoponera)
• Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera)

Citations

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