• MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 445 (q.)
• Combination in Pachycondyla (Pachycondyla): Emery, 1901b: 45.
• Combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Emery, 1911e: 85.
• Combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1960f: 424.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 307.
• Combination in Rasopone: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 210.
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 85; Kempf, 1960f: 427; Kempf, 1961b: 496; Kempf, 1972b: 251; Kempf & Lenko, 1976: 55; Bolton, 1995b: 307; Wild, 2003: 10; Wild, 2007b: 40; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 444 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 263; Feitosa, 2015c: 99; Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 544; Longino & Branstetter, 2020: 23.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla lunaris
• Ponera lunaris

Citations

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