• Forel, 1894b: 76 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b: 1203 (l.)
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 303.
• Combination in Ophthalmopone: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 124.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 31; Emery, 1911e: 69; Forel, 1913a: 108; Arnold, 1915: 50 (redescription); Wheeler, 1922: 768; Stitz, 1923: 143; Santschi, 1937d: 214; Prins, 1963: 98; Peeters & Crewe, 1985: 29; Peeters & Crewe, 1987: 201; Bolton, 1995b: 303; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 220.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla berthoudi

Citations

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• 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.
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