• [Misspelled as sinensis by Imai & Kubota, 1972: 194.]
• Replacement name for Brachyponera solitaria Smith, 1874b. [Junior primary homonym of Pachycondyla solitaria Smith, 1860b.]
• [Note: Brachyponera chinensis junior synonym of Brachyponera solitaria Smith, 1874b (synonymy by Brown, 1958h: 22); hence Brachyponera chinensis first available replacement name.]
• Wheeler, 1921c: 530 (q.); Ogata, 1987a: 116 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986c: 88 (l.); Imai & Kubota, 1972: 194 (k.)
• Combination in Euponera (Brachyponera): Emery, 1909d: 367.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 304.
• Combination in Brachyponera: Brown, 1958h: 22; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 80.
• Subspecies of Brachyponera nigrita: Emery, 1909d: 367; Emery, 1911e: 84; Wheeler, 1921c: 530; Santschi, 1925f: 82; Wheeler, 1929g: 1; Wheeler, 1929h: 35; Wheeler, 1930k: 60; Baltazar, 1966: 244.
• Subspecies of Brachyponera luteipes: Wheeler, 1927h: 84; Wheeler, 1928c: 6; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 64.
• Junior synonym of Brachyponera luteipes: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 103.
• Junior synonym of Pachycondyla solitaria: Brown, 1958h: 22; Onoyama, 1980a: 196; Terayama, 2009: 104.
• Status as species: Brown, 1958h: 22; Collingwood, 1976a: 300; Azuma, 1977a: 112; Onoyama, 1980a: 196; Taylor, 1987a: 10; Morisita et al., 1989: 19; Wang, 1992: 677; Xu, 1994b: 182; Bolton, 1995b: 304; Tang et al., 1995: 32; Kim et al., 1998: 147; Zhou, 2001a: 52; Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 218; Imai et al., 2003: 211; Lin & Wu, 2003: 67; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 30; Radchenko, 2005b: 131; Don, 2007: 188; Terayama, 2009: 104; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 247 (redescription); Yashiro et al., 2010: 42; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 107; Ellison et al., 2012: 91; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 60; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 40; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 139.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla chinensis
• Ponera nigrita chinensis

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