• Santschi, 1910c: 350 (q.); Forel, 1910c: 245 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b: 1207 (l.).
• Combination in Euponera (Brachyponera): Emery, 1901b: 47; in Brachyponera: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b: 1207; in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 309; in Brachyponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 81.
• Senior synonym of Pachycondyla sorghi: Wheeler, 1922: 777; Menozzi, 1930b: 80.
• See also: Arnold, 1915: 73.
• Current subspecies: nominal plus B. s. decolor, B. s. ruginota.

Junior synonyms

• Pachycondyla sorghi (Roger, 1863)

Citations

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