• [Ponera melanaria Emery, 1893h: 242. Nomen nudum.]
• Bingham, 1903: 100 (q.); Donisthorpe, 1942d: 450 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b: 1206 (l.)
• Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Emery, 1900: 668.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 307.
• Combination in Mesoponera: Bingham, 1903: 100; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 111.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1897: 422; Forel, 1900f: 326; Emery, 1900: 668; Bingham, 1903: 100; Emery, 1911e: 81; Forel, 1911c: 216; Forel, 1913l: 8; Donisthorpe, 1942d: 450; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 64; Bolton, 1995b: 307; Tiwari, 1999: 31; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 108; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 61; Bharti et al., 2016: 52; Dias et al., 2020: 114.

Obsolete combinations

• Euponera melanaria
• Ponera melanaria

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