• Combination in Hypoponera: Kempf, 1972b: 122
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 39; Forel, 1895b: 115; Emery, 1896g: 54 (in key); Emery, 1911e: 92; Borgmeier, 1923: 73; Kempf, 1962b: 12 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 214; Wild, 2007b: 39; Feitosa, 2015c: 98.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera foreli

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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