• Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b: 45.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 304.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Mayr, 1862: 717; Roger, 1863b: 16; Wheeler, 1922: 72; Joma & Mackay, 2013: 3; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 16; Mayr, 1863a: 397; Dalla Torre, 1893: 36; Emery, 1911e: 76; Arnold, 1915: 60; Wheeler, 1922: 72 (in key), 769; Arnold, 1947: 132; Arnold, 1952a: 461 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 303; Joma & Mackay, 2015: 549 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla cavernosa
• Ponera cavernosa

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1947. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 7. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:131-167. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1952a. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493. PDF
• 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.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. PDF
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• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus Bothroponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche 2013 Article ID 917847:8 pp. 10.1155/2013/917847 PDF
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2015. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera pumicosa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Sociobiology 62:538-563. 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845 PDF
• Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Roger, J. 1860. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 4:278-312. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.