• [Misspelled as lucidula by Emery, 1909d: 370; Arnol'di, 1932b: 62.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Arnol'di, 1932b: 62.
• Subspecies of Ponera coarctata: Emery, 1909d: 370; Emery, 1911e: 90; Ruzsky, 1923: 5; Menozzi, 1926b: 181; Arnol'di, 1948a: 211 (in list); Ceballos, 1956: 296.
• Junior synonym of Ponera coarctata: Taylor, 1967a: 21; Arakelian, 1994: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 361; Csősz, 2003: 152; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 145; Radchenko, 2016: 69.
• Junior synonym of Ponera testacea: Csősz et al., 2022: 158.

Citations

• Arakelian, G. R. 1994. Fauna of the Republic of Armenia. Hymenopterous insects. Ants (Formicidae). [In Russian.]. Erevan: Gitutium, 153 pp. PDF
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1932b. Studien über die Systematik der Ameisen. VII. Die russischen Poneriden meiner Sammlung, teilweise biometrisch bearbeitet. Zoologischer Anzeiger 98:49-68. PDF
• Arnol'di, K. V. 1948a. Ants of Talysh and the Diabar depression. Their importance for the characterization of communities of terrestrial invertebrates and for historical analysis of the fauna. [In Russian.]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 7(2):206-262. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Ceballos, G. 1956. Catálogo de los Himenópteros de España. Madrid: Instituto Español de Entomología, 554 pp.
• Csősz, S. 2003. A key to the Ponerinae species of the Carpathian Basin (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 95:147-160. PDF
• Csősz, S.; Kiran, K.; Karaman, C.; Lapeva-Gjonova, A. 2022. A striking color variation is detected in Ponera testacea Emery, 1895 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) across its Western Palaearctic geographic range. ZooKeys 1084:151-164. 10.3897/zookeys.1084.79415 PDF
• Emery, C. 1898c. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der palaearktischen Ameisen. Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar 20:124-151. PDF
• Emery, C. 1909d. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. (Hym.) Teil VIII. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1909:355-376. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Gratiashvili, N.; Barjadze, S. 2008. Checklist of the ants (Formicidae Latreille, 1809) of Georgia. Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Tbilisi) 23:130-146. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1926b. Zur Kenntnis der Ameisenfauna der Balearen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 66:180-182. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
• Ruzsky, M. 1923. Ants of Cheleken Island. [In Russian.]. Izvestiya Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta 72(2nd part):1-6.
• Taylor, R. W. 1967a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 13:1-112. PDF