• Bingham, 1903: 73 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952c: 606 (l); Imai et al., 1984: 5 (k.)
• Combination in Odontoponera: Emery, 1893g: 189.
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 86; Mayr, 1863a: 451; Smith, 1871a: 321; Dalla Torre, 1893: 30; Emery, 1893g: 189; Emery, 1893i: 262; Emery, 1895m: 458; Forel, 1899j: 314; Emery, 1900: 663; Bingham, 1903: 73; Forel, 1905f: 7; Forel, 1906b: 92; Forel, 1907h: 17; Forel, 1909i: 221; Wheeler, 1909d: 339; Forel, 1910d: 122; Emery, 1911e: 60; Forel, 1912e: 97; Forel, 1913l: 7; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 113; Viehmeyer, 1916b: 285; Wheeler, 1919f: 52; Santschi, 1920h: 158; Wheeler, 1923c: 1; Wheeler, 1924c: 242; Crawley, 1924a: 383; Santschi, 1924c: 95; Stitz, 1925c: 111; Wheeler & Chapman, 1925: 62; Karavaiev, 1925a: 81; Mukerjee & Ribeiro, 1925: 205; Wheeler, 1927b: 42; Wheeler, 1927d: 1; Wheeler, 1927h: 84; Wheeler, 1928c: 5; Santschi, 1928h: 124; Creighton, 1929: 152; Donisthorpe, 1929a: 444; Wheeler, 1929g: 1; Wheeler, 1929h: 32; Menozzi, 1930a: 1; Menozzi, 1930h: 328; Wheeler, 1930k: 58; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 448; Stitz, 1932b: 733; Menozzi, 1932d: 4; Karavaiev, 1935a: 60; Wheeler, 1937a: 21; Menozzi, 1939a: 327; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 67; Collingwood, 1962c: 224; Baltazar, 1966: 246; Onoyama, 1980a: 196; Radchenko, 1993a: 79; Bolton, 1995b: 298; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 45; Tang et al., 1995: 38; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 282; Zhou, 2001a: 47; Lin & Wu, 2003: 67; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 30; Yamane, 2009: 4 (redescription); Terayama, 2009: 104; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 7; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 57; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 60; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 153; Wang et al., 2022: 131.
• Senior synonym of Odontoponera transversa nitens: Yamane, 2009: 3, 6 (in text).

Junior synonyms

• Odontoponera transversa nitens Creighton, 1929

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera transversa

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