• Combination in †Ponerites: Dlussky, 1981a: 67.
• Status as species: Taylor, 1964: 139; Burnham, 1979: 116; Dlussky, 1981a: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 363.

Obsolete combinations

• †Ponera umbra

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Burnham, L. 1979 ("1978"). Survey of social insects in the fossil record. Psyche (Cambridge) 85:85-133. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1981a. Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR. [In Russian.]. Pp. 64-83 in: Vishnyakova, V. N.; Dlussky, G. M.; Pritykina, L. N. 1981. New fossil insects from the territories of the USSR. [In Russian.] Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 183:1-87. PDF
• Popov, V. 1933. Two new fossil ants from Caucasus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Trudy Paleozoologicheskogo Instituta. Akademiya Nauk SSSR 2:17-21. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1964. Taxonomy and parataxonomy of some fossil ants (Hymenoptera-Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 71:134-141. PDF