• Lectotype designation: Kempf, 1962a: 40.
• Combination in Acanthoponera: Emery, 1911e: 36.
• Combination in Acanthoponera (Anacanthoponera): Wheeler, 1923f: 186.
• Combination in Heteroponera: Brown, 1958g: 195.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 24; Emery, 1894d: 143; Forel, 1895b: 112; Forel, 1899b: 9; Emery, 1911e: 36; Borgmeier, 1923: 54; Wheeler, 1923f: 186; Santschi, 1929d: 275; Brown, 1958g: 195, 257; Kempf, 1962a: 40 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 117; Bolton, 1995b: 212; Feitosa, 2015c: 98; Camacho et al., 2022: 14.

Obsolete combinations

• Ectatomma dentinode

Citations

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