• Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Donisthorpe, 1932c: 458.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Joma & Mackay, 2013: 2.
• Incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 155.
• [Note: generic combination equivocal: probably not a Bothroponera, and certainly not a Pachycondyla; perhaps Pseudoneoponera.]
• Combination in Diacamma: Fisher, 2025: 102.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 451; Smith, 1871a: 322; Dalla Torre, 1893: 42; Emery, 1901i: 566; Emery, 1911e: 116; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 458; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 311; Fisher, 2025: 102.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla unicolor
• Ponera unicolor

Citations

• 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
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
• Emery, C. 1901i. Formiciden von Celebes. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 14:565-580. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Fisher, B. L. 2025. Replacement names for junior homonyms in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1256:81-113. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1256.162607 PDF
• 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
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. 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
• Smith, F. 1860a. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at Celebes. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 5(17b)(suppl. to vol. 4):57-93. PDF
• Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF