• Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Donisthorpe, 1949c: 746.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 309.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Joma & Mackay, 2013: 2.
• Combination in Ectomomyrmex: Wilson, 1958g: 365; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 194.
• Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1949c: 746; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 51; Wilson, 1958g: 365; Bolton, 1995b: 309.

Obsolete combinations

• Bothroponera simillima

Citations

• 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.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1949c ("1948"). A sixth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:744-759. PDF
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus Bothroponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche 2013 Article ID 917847:8 pp. 10.1155/2013/917847 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
• Wilson, E. O. 1958g. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119:303-371. PDF