• Xiphopelta in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Forel, 1917: 237 [subtribe Pachycondylini].
• Xiphopelta as subgenus of Ponera: Forel, 1913a: 108; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 737.
• Xiphopelta as subgenus of Euponera: Forel, 1917: 237; Emery, 1919c: 106; Bernard, 1953b: 191.
• Xiphopelta as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 50; Tang et al., 1995: 39; Bolton, 2003: 168; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 3.
• Xiphopelta as junior synonym of Mesoponera: Wheeler, 1922: 775; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
• [Hiphopelta: incorrect subsequent spelling by Forel, 1913a: 108 (in text).]

Obsolete classifications

• Euponera (Xiphopelta)

Citations

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