• Lectotype designation: Diller, 1990: 70.
• Kempf, 1971: 372 (m.); Dias & Lattke, 2021 19 (m.)
• Combination in Dinoponera: Roger, 1861a: 38
• Status as species: Borgmeier, 1937b: 225; Kempf, 1970b: 326; Kempf, 1971: 371 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 97; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Lenhart et al., 2013: 139 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 123; Feitosa, 2015c: 98; Escárraga et al., 2017: 134 (in key); Dias & Lattke, 2021: 18 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera gigantea

Citations

• Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1937b. Formigas novas ou pouco conhecidas da América do Sul e Central, principalmente do Brasil (Hym. Formicidae). Archivos do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal (Rio de Janeiro) 3:217-255. PDF
• Dias, A. M.; Lattke, J. E. 2021. Large ants are not easy – the taxonomy of Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 784:1–66. 10.5852/ejt.2021.784.1603 PDF
• Diller, E. 1990. Die von Spix und Martius 1817-1820 in Brasilien gesammelten und von J. A. M. Perty 1833 bearbeiteten Hymenopteren in der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Spixiana 13:61-81. PDF
• Escárraga, M. E.; Lattke, J. E.; Azevedo, C. O. 2017. Discovery of the Dinoponera lucida male (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a threatened giant ant from the Atlantic rain forest. Zootaxa 4347:128-136. 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.7 PDF
• Feitosa, R. M. 2015c. Lista das formigas poneromorfas do Brasil. Pp. 95-102 in: Delabie, J. H. C.; Feitosa, R. M.; Serrão, J. E.; Mariano, C. S. F.; Majer, J. D. (eds.) 2015. As formigas poneromorfas do Brasil. Ilhéus-Bahia: Editora da UESC, 477 pp. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1970b. Levantamento das formigas da Mata Amazônica, nos Arredores de Belém do Pará, Brasil. Studia Entomologica 13:321-344. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1971. A preliminary review of the ponerine ant genus Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 14:369-394. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Lenhart, P. A.; Dash, S. T.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. A revision of the giant Amazonian ants of the genus Dinoponera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31:119-164. PDF
• Perty, M. 1833. Delectus animalium articulatorum, quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi peracto, collegerunt Dr. J. B. Spix et Dr. C. F. Ph. de Martius. Fasc. 3. Monachii [= Munich]: published by the author, pp. 125-224.
• Roger, J. 1861a. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 5:1-54. PDF