• Status as species: Emery, 1900b: 316 (in key); Wheeler, 1908c: 165; Wheeler, 1909c: 271; Emery, 1911e: 91; Cheesman & Crawley, 1928: 516; Wheeler, 1930b: 94; Wheeler, 1932e: 156; Wheeler, 1932g: 14; Wheeler, 1933f: 141; Wheeler, 1934i: 10; Wheeler, 1935g: 13; Wheeler, 1936g: 4; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 71; Wilson, 1958g: 334.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera opaciceps: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 28; Smith, 1979: 1343; Snelling & George, 1979: 21; Taylor, 1987a: 30; Bolton, 1995b: 215; Imai et al., 2003: 215; Terayama, 2009: 113; Ramage, 2014: 152.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera perkinsi

Citations

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