• [Misspelled as inexornata by Menozzi, 1931b: 262.]
• Combination in Hypoponera: Taylor, 1968a: 65
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1908h: 406; Wheeler, 1910a: 561; Emery, 1911e: 92; Wheeler, 1914c: 40; Essig, 1926: 869; Smith, 1927b: 309; Menozzi, 1931b: 262; Smith, 1936d: 422; Creighton, 1950a: 49; Smith, 1951c: 786; Smith, 1967a: 348; Taylor, 1968a: 65; Kempf, 1972b: 122; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 20; Smith, 1979: 1342; Deyrup et al., 1989: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 214; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 34; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Deyrup, 2017: 22.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera inexorata

Citations

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