• Crozier, 1970a: 123 (k.)
• Combination in Ectatomma: Roger, 1861b: 168.
• Combination in Rhytidoponera: Emery, 1911e: 38.
• Combination in Myrmecia: Brown, 1953j: 6.
• Status as species: Roger, 1861b: 168; Mayr, 1863a: 410; Dalla Torre, 1893: 26; Emery, 1911e: 38.
• Junior synonym of Myrmecia pilosula: Brown, 1953j: 6; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 14; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1631; Bolton, 1995b: 273; Taylor, 2015a: 505.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera ruginoda

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
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• Taylor, R. W. 2015a. Ants with attitude: Australian Jack-jumpers of the Myrmecia pilosula species complex, with descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Zootaxa 3911 (4):493-520. 10.11646/zootaxa.3911.4.2 PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.