• Lectotype designation: Csősz & Seifert, 2003: 219.
• Csősz, 2003: 158 (m.); Csősz & Seifert, 2003: 221 (m.).
• Subspecies of Ponera coarctata: Emery, 1909d: 369; Santschi, 1910e: 649; Emery, 1911e: 90; Krausse, 1912c: 162; Emery, 1916a: 107; Menozzi, 1918: 82; Bondroit, 1918: 83; Menozzi, 1921: 25; Menozzi, 1922c: 324; Soudek, 1922b: 19; Finzi, 1924a: 12; Stärcke, 1926a: 82 (in key); Finzi, 1930d: 311; Arnol'di, 1932b: 64; Finzi, 1933: 162; Grandi, 1935: 98; Zimmermann, 1935: 8; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 71 (in key); Kratochvíl, in Kratochvíl et al., 1944: 62 (in key); Van Boven, 1947b: 169; Consani & Zangheri, 1952: 39; Ceballos, 1956: 295; Baroni Urbani, 1964b: 27; Markó & Csősz, 2002: 111.
• Junior synonym of Ponera coarctata: Taylor, 1967a: 21; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 19; Collingwood, 1978: 66; Bolton, 1995b: 363; Gallé et al., 1998: 214.
• Status as species: Csősz, 2003: 158 (redescription); Csősz & Seifert, 2003: 219 (redescription); Bračko, 2006: 134; Markó et al., 2006: 69; Scupola, 2006: 162; Bračko, 2007: 17; Seifert, 2007: 191; Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 144; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 498; Boer, 2010: 70; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 6; Csősz et al., 2011: 56; Karaman, 2011b: 14; Legakis, 2011: 4; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 531; Czechowski et al., 2012: 57; Borowiec & Salata, 2013: 365; Borowiec, 2014: 148; Lebas et al., 2016: 406; Radchenko, 2016: 70; Steiner et al., 2017: 16; Borowiec & Salata, 2018a: 7; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 48; Seifert, 2018: 147; Werner et al., 2018: 7; Bračko, 2019: 172; Csősz et al., 2022: 158; Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 31 (redescription); Bračko, 2023: 49; Sert & Karaman, 2024: 405.
• Senior synonym of Ponera coarctata crassisquama: Scupola, 2006: 162; Czechowski et al., 2012: 57; Radchenko, 2016: 70.
• Senior synonym of Ponera coarctata lucida: Csősz et al., 2022: 158.

Junior synonyms

• Ponera coarctata crassisquama Emery, 1916
• Ponera coarctata lucida Emery, 1898

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera coarctata testacea

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