• Paraponera in Poneridae: Smith, 1858a: 100.
• Paraponera in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 714 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 14 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18.
• Paraponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Forel, 1895b: 111; Forel, 1899b: 10.
• Paraponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Paraponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Brown, 1954e: 25 (in text); Brown, 1958g: 205; Kusnezov, 1964: 50; Kempf, 1972b: 181; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1994: 164.
• Paraponera in Ponerinae, Paraponerini: Emery, 1911e: 27; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 641; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 681; Jaffe, 1993: 7; Lattke, 1994: 111.
• Paraponera in Paraponerinae, Paraponerini: Bolton, 2003: 48.

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