• Joma & Mackay, 2020: 371 (m.)
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 308.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Wheeler, 1922: 73; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1907b: 9; Emery, 1911e: 76; Wheeler, 1922: 73, 771; Menozzi, 1942a: 166; Weber, 1943d: 297; Eidmann, 1944: 430; Arnold, 1954: 292; Bolton, 1995b: 308; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 221; Joma & Mackay, 2020: 369 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Bothroponera pachyderma attenuata: Joma & Mackay, 2020: 369.
• Senior synonym of Bothroponera pachyderma funerea: Joma & Mackay, 2020: 369.
• Senior synonym of Bothroponera pachyderma postsquamosa: Joma & Mackay, 2020: 369.

Junior synonyms

• Bothroponera pachyderma attenuata (Santschi, 1920)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla pachyderma attenuata
• Bothroponera pachyderma funerea Wheeler, 1922
• Bothroponera pachyderma postsquamosa (Santschi, 1920)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla pachyderma postsquamosa

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla pachyderma

Citations

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• 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.
• Eidmann, H. 1944. Die Ameisenfauna von Fernando Poo. 27. Beitrag zu den Ergebnissen der Westafrika-Expedition. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 76:413-490. PDF
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• 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. 2020. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera talpa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 146 (2):355-408. 10.3157/061.146.0206 PDF
• Mayr, G. 1907b. 2. Formicidae. Pp. 7-24 in: Sjöstedt, Y. 1907. 1907-1910. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906. 2. Band, Abt. 8. Stockholm: K. Schwed. Akad. Wissenschaften, 316 pp. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1942a. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zoologischer Anzeiger 140:164-182. 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
• Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389. PDF
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