• Phrynoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Wheeler, 1922: 648; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 44, 169; Bolton & Fisher, 2008b: 35.
• Phrynoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Odontomachus genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 127.
• Phrynoponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389.
• Phrynoponera as genus: Wheeler, 1920: 53; Wheeler, 1922: 75; Bolton, 1973a: 338; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1994: 165; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 44, 169; Bolton & Fisher, 2008b: 37; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 127.

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