• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 306.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 306; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 220.
• Junior synonym of Boltonopone silvestrii: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 39; Fisher et al., 2025: 327.

Obsolete combinations

• Bothroponera kenyensis

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.
• Fisher, B. L.; Branstetter, M. G.; Blaimer, B. B.; Borowiec, M. L.; Camacho, G. P.; Doré, M; Ward, P. S.; Longino, J. T. 2025. A genus-level classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1264:281-349. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1264.173399 PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera sulcata species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143:7-71. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1937a. Glanure de fourmis éthiopiennes. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 77:47-66. 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