• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 309.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 309; Joma & Mackay, 2020: 374 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla rubescens

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.
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2020. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera talpa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 146 (2):355-408. 10.3157/061.146.0206 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