• Status as species: Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 92; Creighton, 1950a: 49; Smith, 1951c: 786.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera gleadowi: Taylor, 1968a: 65; Smith, 1979: 1342; Bolton, 1995b: 215; Coovert, 2005: 28.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera ragusai: Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 95

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera oblongiceps

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843:1-118. PDF
• Coovert, G. A. 2005. The ants of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (New Series) 15 (2):1-196. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1939a. A new species of North American Ponera, with an ergatandrous form (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 41:76-78. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1968a. Nomenclature and synonymy of the North American ants of the genera Ponera and Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 79:63-66. PDF
• Wesson, L. G.; Wesson, R. G. 1940. A collection of ants from southcentral Ohio. American Midland Naturalist 24:89-103. PDF