• Combination in Ponera (Hypoponera): Santschi, 1938b: 79.
• Combination in Hypoponera: Taylor, 1967a: 12.
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 90; Forel, 1913g: 186; Forel, 1913l: 10; Wheeler, 1929h: 59; Donisthorpe, 1949b: 491; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 68; Wilson, 1958g: 327; Taylor, 1976a: 80; Bolton, 1995b: 213; Lin & Wu, 2003: 67; Terayama, 2009: 113; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 104; Sarnat et al., 2013: 73.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera biroi

Citations

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