• Pteroponera as junior synonym of Ponera: Brown, 1973b: 184 [provisional]; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 45; Bolton, 2003: 170; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 200.

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