• Forel, 1908c: 37 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952c: 624 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976a: 53 (l.)
• Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Emery, 1901b: 46.
• Combination in Mesoponera: Kempf, 1961b: 494.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 304.
• Combination in Mayaponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 145.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 39; Forel, 1895b: 115; Emery, 1896g: 53 (in key); Forel, 1899b: 15; Forel, 1908c: 37; Emery, 1911e: 82; Forel, 1912d: 40; Wheeler, 1916c: 3; Wheeler, 1916f: 323; Santschi, 1921g: 87; Wheeler, 1922e: 3; Mann, 1922: 8; Borgmeier, 1923: 71; Kempf, 1961b: 494; Kempf, 1972b: 141; Bolton, 1995b: 304; Mackay et al., 2008: 189; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 269 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 123; Feitosa, 2015c: 99; Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 528.
• Senior synonym of Mayaponera josephi: Dalla Torre, 1893: 39; Forel, 1895b: 115; Forel, 1899b: 15; Emery, 1911e: 82; Borgmeier, 1923: 71; Kempf, 1972b: 141; Bolton, 1995b: 304; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 269.

Junior synonyms

• Mayaponera josephi (Forel, 1886)
  Obsolete combination(s): Ponera josephi

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla constricta
• Ponera constricta

Citations

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