• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 53; Bolton, 2000: 17; Galvis & Fernández, 2009: 248 (in key).

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1994c. [Untitled. Acanthognathus poinari Baroni Urbani n. sp.]. Pp. 41-44 in: Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 1994. First description of fossil Dacetini ants with a critical analysis of the current classification of the tribe (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VI: Dacetini). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 198:1-65. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
• Galvis, J. P.; Fernández, F. 2009. Ants of Colombia X. Acanthognathus with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Colombiana de Entomología 35 (2):245-249. PDF