• Lectotype designation: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 32.
• [Also described as new by Forel, 1903h: 559.]
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 308.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Wheeler, 1922: 72; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 77; Wheeler, 1922: 72 (in key), 771; Santschi, 1930b: 54; Bolton, 1995b: 308; Joma & Mackay, 2017: 31 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla picardi

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.
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1901g. Einige neue Ameisen aus Südbrasilien, Java, Natal und Mossamedes. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 10:297-311. PDF
• Forel, A. 1903h. Einige neue Ameisen aus Süd-Angola. Pp. 559-564 in: Baum, H. 1903. Kunene-Sambesi-Expedition, 1903. Berlin: Verlag des Kolonial-Wirtschaftlichen Komitees, 593 pp.
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera sulcata species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143:7-71. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1930b. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola, 1928-1929. Formicides de l'Angola. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 37:53-81. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.