• Wheeler, 1915i: 38 (w.)
• Combination in Hypoponera: Dlussky, 2002b: 295
• Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 725; Dalla Torre, 1893: 37; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 879; Wheeler, 1915i: 38; Taylor, 1964: 139; Taylor, 1967a: 29 (redescription); Burnham, 1979: 109; Keilbach, 1982: 272; Bolton, 1995b: 360; Dlussky, 2002b: 295 (redescription); Dlussky, 2009: 1048 (redescription); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.

Obsolete combinations

• †Ponera atavia

Citations

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