• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 304.
• Combination in Pachycondyla (Brachyponera): Framenau & Thomas, 2008: 79.
• Combination in Brachyponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 80.
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 304; Framenau & Thomas, 2008: 79; Chen et al., 2025: 254.

Obsolete combinations

• Euponera christmasi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chen, C.; Yu, Y.; Yi, C. 2025. Revision of the Chinese species of the genus Brachyponera Emery, 1900 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to the world species of the genus. ZooKeys 1230:247–286. [online early] 10.397/zookeys.1230.140159 PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1935. The ants of Christmas Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)15:629-635. PDF
• Framenau, V. W.; Thomas, M. L. 2008. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): identification and distribution. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25:45-85. PDF
• Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF