• Leong et al., 2019: 30 (q.)
• Status as species: Imai et al., 2003: 215; Yoshimura et al., 2009: 200 (in key); Leong et al., 2019: 27 (redescription).

Citations

• Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. PDF
• Leong, C.-M.; Guénard, B.; Shiao, S.-F.; Lin, C.-C. 2019. Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species. Zootaxa 4594:1-86. 10.11646/zootaxa.4594.1.1 PDF
• Terayama, M. 1996b. Taxonomic studies on the Japanese Formicidae, part 2. Seven genera of Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae and Myrmicinae. Nature & Human Activities 1:9-32. PDF
• Yoshimura, M.; Hosoishi, S.; Kuboki, Y.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K. 2009. New synonym and new Japanese record of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological Science 12:194-201. PDF