• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 312.
• [Note: Wilson, 1986a: 197 describes, but does not name, a Paraponera fossil from the Dominican amber.]

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C. 1994a. The identity of the Dominican Paraponera (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. V: Ponerinae, partim). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 197:1-9. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Wilson, E. O. 1986a ("1985"). Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 4. A giant ponerine in the genus Paraponera. Israel Journal of Entomology 19:197-200. PDF