• Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013a: 120.
• Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b: 45
• Combination in Bothroponera: Forel, 1891c: 129; Joma & Mackay, 2013: 2; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76
• Status as species: Forel, 1891c: 129 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893: 36; Forel, 1907h: 14; Emery, 1911e: 78; Wheeler, 1922: 1007; Bolton, 1995b: 304; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013a: 120 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla comorensis
• Ponera comorensis

Citations

• André, Ern. 1887. Description de quelques fourmis nouvelles ou imparfaitement connues. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 6:280-298. PDF
• 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
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1907h. Formiciden aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg. II. Teil. Neueingänge seit 1900. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 24:1-20. PDF
• 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
• Rakotonirina, J. C.; Fisher, B. L. 2013a. Revision of the Pachycondyla wasmannii-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Malagasy region. Zootaxa 3609:101-141. 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.