• Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 204.
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952c: 613 (l.).
• Status as species: Mann, 1916: 411; Borgmeier, 1923: 66; Menozzi, 1935b: 191.
• Subspecies of Neoponera obscuricornis: Emery, 1911e: 72; Forel, 1912d: 36; Forel, 1914e: 10; Wheeler, 1916f: 323; Luederwaldt, 1918: 35; Mann, 1922: 7; Wheeler, 1922e: 3; Wheeler, 1923a: 2; Wheeler, 1938: 251; Santschi, 1939f: 160.
• Junior synonym of Neoponera apicalis: Brown, 1957e: 230; Kempf, 1972b: 161; Bolton, 1995b: 306; Wild, 2005: 5; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 204.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla latreillei

Citations

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