• [Also described as new by Luederwaldt, 1920b: 4.]
• Combination in Neoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 151
• Status as species: Borgmeier, 1923: 70; Kempf, 1961e: 200 (redescription); Kempf, 1964e: 52 (in key); Kempf, 1972b: 174; Bolton, 1995b: 307; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 460 (redescription); Feitosa, 2015c: 99.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla metanotalis

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.
• Feitosa, R. M. 2015c. Lista das formigas poneromorfas do Brasil. Pp. 95-102 in: Delabie, J. H. C.; Feitosa, R. M.; Serrão, J. E.; Mariano, C. S. F.; Majer, J. D. (eds.) 2015. As formigas poneromorfas do Brasil. Ilhéus-Bahia: Editora da UESC, 477 pp. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1961e. As formigas do gênero Pachycondyla Fr. Smith no Brasil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 10:189-204. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1964e. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. III. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 7:45-71. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
• Luederwaldt, H. 1920b. Neue Brasilianische Ameisen. São Paulo: Weiszflog Irmãos, 14 pp. 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
• 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