• Combination in Promyopias: Emery, 1915e: 26.
• Combination in Pseudoponera (Promyopias): Wheeler, 1922: 779.
• Combination in Centromyrmex: Bolton, 1995b: 140.
• Combination in Promyopias: Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 31.
• Status as species: Emery, 1915e: 26; Wheeler, 1922: 779; Santschi, 1924a: 158; Brown, 1963a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 140; Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 31 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Promyopias asili: Brown, 1963a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 140; Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 31.

Junior synonyms

• Promyopias asili Crawley, 1916

Obsolete combinations

• Myopias silvestrii

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2008c. Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1929:1-37. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1963a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora 190:1-10. PDF
• Emery, C. 1915e. Formiche raccolte nell'Eritrea dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 10:3-26. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1924a. Revue du genre Plectroctena F. Smith. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31:155-173. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.