• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 68.
• Junior synonym of Cryptopone testacea: Wilson, 1958g: 360; Bolton, 1995b: 166.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera anommata

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1948b ("1947"). A second instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:297-317. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1958g. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119:303-371. PDF