• Combination in Hypoponera: Bolton, 1995b: 216
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 91; Arnold, 1915: 77 (redescription); Wheeler, 1922: 782; Arnold, 1926: 206; Santschi, 1926b: 207; Arnold, 1960a: 81; Bolton, 1995b: 216; Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 101 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Hypoponera spei fidelis: Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 101.
• Material of the unavailable name Hypoponera spei devota sancta referred here by Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 101.

Junior synonyms

• Hypoponera spei fidelis (Santschi, 1926)
  Obsolete combination(s): Ponera spei fidelis

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera spei

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1960a. Aculeate Hymenoptera from the Drakensberg Mountains, Natal. Annals of the Natal Museum 15:79-87. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843:1-118. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1926b. Description de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens (IIIme partie). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 13:207-267. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.