• Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Donisthorpe, 1932c: 447.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 302.
• Combination in Ectomomyrmex: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 193.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 88; Mayr, 1863a: 447; Dalla Torre, 1893: 37; Emery, 1911e: 116; Wheeler, 1919f: 139; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 447; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 68; Bolton, 1995b: 302; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 57.
• Senior synonym of Ectomomyrmex terminalis Smith, 1871a (unnecessary replacement name): synonymy unpublished.
• Senior synonym of Ectomomyrmex terminalis Özdikmen, 2010c (unnecessary replacement name): synonymy unpublished.
• [Note: apparently purely by chance, Özdikmen chose the same replacement name that Smith, F. had chosen almost 140 years earlier.]

Junior synonyms

• Ectomomyrmex terminalis (Özdikmen, 2010)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla terminalis
• Ectomomyrmex terminalis (Smith, 1871)
  Obsolete combination(s): Ponera terminalis

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera apicalis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
• Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF
• Smith, F. 1857a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2:42-88. PDF
• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF