• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 306.
• Combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 111.
• Subspecies of Mesoponera rubra: Emery, 1911e: 81; Wheeler, 1924c: 242; Karavaiev, 1926d: 419; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 306.
• Status as species: Wang et al., 2022: 128.
• Senior synonym of Mesoponera rubra minirubra Özdikmen, 2010c (unnecessary replacement name).

Junior synonyms

• Mesoponera rubra minirubra (Özdikmen, 2010)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla rubra minirubra

Obsolete combinations

• Euponera rubra javana
• Mesoponera rubra javana
• Pachycondyla rubra javana

Citations

• 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.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1905f. Ameisen aus Java. Gesammelt von Prof. Karl Kraepelin 1904. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 22:1-26. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1926d. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. Treubia 8:413-445. 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
• Wang, W. Y.; Soh, E. J. Y.; Yong, G. W. J.; Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P.; Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006:1-152. [online early] 10.20362/am.015006 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1924c. Ants of Krakatau and other islands in the Sunda Strait. Treubia 5:239-258. PDF