• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 307.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Joma & Mackay, 2013: 3; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76.
• Subspecies of Bothroponera pumicosa: Arnold, 1952a: 462 (in key).
• Subspecies of Bothroponera cavernosa: Bolton, 1995b: 307.
• Status as species: Joma & Mackay, 2015: 554 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Bothroponera cavernosa montivaga
• Pachycondyla cavernosa montivaga

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1947. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 7. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:131-167. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1952a. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus Bothroponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche 2013 Article ID 917847:8 pp. 10.1155/2013/917847 PDF
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2015. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera pumicosa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Sociobiology 62:538-563. 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845 PDF
• Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF