• [Also described as new by Emery, 1894l: 48.]
• Status as species: Emery, 1890c: 42.
• Junior synonym of Neoponera laevigata: Emery, 1892c: 167; Dalla Torre, 1893: 34; Forel, 1895b: 114; Forel, 1899b: 13; Emery, 1911e: 82; Borgmeier, 1923: 71; Kempf, 1972b: 249; Bolton, 1995b: 305; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 414; Troya & Lattke, 2022: 42.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla gagatina

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24:33-103.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1890b. Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887 - Avril 1888). Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6)10:55-76. PDF
• Emery, C. 1890c. Studii sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 22:38-80. PDF
• Emery, C. 1892c ("1891"). Note sinonimiche sulle formiche. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 23:159-167. PDF
• Emery, C. 1894l. Estudios sobre las hormigas de Costa Rica. Anales del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica 1888-1889:45-64. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF
• Troya, A.; Lattke, J. 2022. Neoponera Emery, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revisited: 1. The N. laevigata species-group. Insect Systematics & Evolution -:1-76. 10.1163/1876312X-bja10034 PDF