• Wheeler, 1936g: 4 (q.)
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 13; Wheeler, 1936g: 4.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera gleadowi: Wilson, 1958g: 329; Bolton, 1995b: 215.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera punctatissima: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 29 (in text); Taylor, 1987a: 30; Ramage, 2014: 152; Radchenko, 2016: 72.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera mumfordi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
• Ramage, T. 2014. Les fourmis de Polynésie française (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 119 (2):145-176. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1933f. A new species of Ponera and other records of ants from the Marquesas Islands. Bulletin of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 114:141-144. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1936g. Ants from the Society, Austral, Tuamotu and Mangareva Islands. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 12(18):3-17. 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
• Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF