• Emery, 1899d: 473 (q.); Santschi, 1914d: 314 (q.).
• Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b: 45.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 310.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Wheeler, 1922: 72; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 37; Emery, 1899d: 473; Santschi, 1914d: 314; Wheeler, 1922: 73, 773; Bolton, 1975b: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 310; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 221; Joma & Mackay, 2020: 383 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Bothroponera clavicornis: Bolton, 1975b: 6; Bolton, 1995b: 310; Joma & Mackay, 2020: 383.

Junior synonyms

• Bothroponera clavicornis (Bernard, 1953)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla clavicornis, Psalidomyrmex clavicornis

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla talpa

Citations

• André, Ern. 1890. Matériaux pour servir à la faune myrmécologique de Sierra-Leone (Afrique occidentale). Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 9:311-327. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1975b. A revision of the African ponerine ant genus Psalidomyrmex André (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 32:1-16. PDF
• 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.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1899d. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43:459-504. PDF
• Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. 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. 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. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.