• [Misspelled as nipona by Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 138.]
• Onoyama, 1989b: 6 (q.m.)
• Combination in Hypoponera: Ogata, 1987a: 123
• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 70; Onoyama, 1980a: 196; Morisita et al., 1989: 26; Kim et al., 1998: 150; Onoyama, 1989b: 6 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 215; Imai et al., 2003: 215; Lin & Wu, 2003: 67; Terayama, 2009: 113; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 104; Terayama et al., 2011: 76; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 59.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera nippona

Citations

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