• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971c: 389 (l.)
• Combination in Ponera (Pachycondyla): Roger, 1860: 287.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Mayr, 1863a: 439.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Mayr, 1876: 87.
• Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b: 45.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 308.
• Combination in Pseudoneoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 135.
• Status as species: Roger, 1860: 287; Mayr, 1863a: 439; Mayr, 1876: 87; Mayr, 1886c: 359; Emery, 1887f: 442 (in key, footnote); Dalla Torre, 1893: 36; Emery, 1911e: 77; Stitz, 1911a: 355; Forel, 1915b: 21; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 22; Taylor, 1987a: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 308.

Obsolete combinations

• Bothroponera piliventris
• Pachycondyla piliventris
• Ponera piliventris

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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