• Santschi, 1930c: 267 (m.)
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 304
• Combination in Bothroponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
• Subspecies of Bothroponera crassa: Santschi, 1930c: 267; Santschi, 1932b: 382; Arnold, 1952a: 462 (in key); Prins, 1963: 99; Bolton, 1995b: 304; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 220.
• Status as species: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 17 (redescription); Madl, 2019: 16 (error).
• Junior synonym of Bothroponera ilgii: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 17.
• [Note: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 17, give Bothroponera crassior as senior synonym, but Bothroponera ilgii has priority.]
• Material of the unavailable name Bothroponera crassa crassior andrieui referred here by: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 17.

Obsolete combinations

• Bothroponera crassa crassior

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1952a. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493. PDF
• Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
• 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.
• Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera sulcata species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143:7-71. PDF
• Madl, M. 2019. Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B Für Botanik Und Zoologie 121:9-18. PDF
• Prins, A. J. 1963. A list of the ants collected in the Kruger National Park with notes on their distribution. Koedoe 6:91-108. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1930a. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70:49-77. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1930c. Trois notes myrmécologiques. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70:263-270. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1932b. Formicides sud-africains. Pp. 381-392 in: Jeannel, R. (ed.) 1932. Société Entomologique de France. Livre du centenaire. Paris: Société Entomologique de France, xii + 729 pp. 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