• Replacement name for Hypoponera biroi rugosa Mann, 1921. [Junior primary homonym of Diacamma rugosum Le Guillou, 1842.]
• Combination in Hypoponera: Bolton, 1995b: 214
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera opaciceps (as Hypoponera biroi rugosa Mann, 1921; in list only): Dlussky, 1994a: 53.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 214; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 149.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera eutrepta

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
• Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. 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