• [Duplicated in Jerdon, 1854b: 102.]
• [Misspelled as ruficeps by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 50.]
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Smith, 1858a: 106.
• Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b: 45.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Mayr, 1867a: 83; Wheeler, 1919f: 55.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 309.
• Combination in Pseudoneoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 135.
• Status as species: Smith, 1857a: 67; Smith, 1858a: 106; Roger, 1860: 287; Mayr, 1863a: 450; Mayr, 1867a: 83 (redescription); Forel, 1886d: 246; Mayr, 1886c: 359; Emery, 1887f: 442 (in key, footnote); Emery, 1889: 495; André, 1892c: 53; Dalla Torre, 1893: 36; Emery, 1895m: 459; Forel, 1900f: 326; Bingham, 1903: 96; Forel, 1906b: 91; Forel, 1907h: 17; Forel, 1908b: 1; Emery, 1911e: 76; Forel, 1915a: 22; Wheeler, 1919f: 55; Santschi, 1920h: 159; Santschi, 1924c: 96, 97; Mukerjee & Ribeiro, 1925: 206; Wheeler, 1927h: 84; Wheeler, 1928c: 5; Donisthorpe, 1929a: 445; Wheeler, 1930k: 59; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 447; Menozzi, 1939a: 328; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 50; Collingwood, 1962c: 224; Collingwood, 1970b: 372; Tang & Li, 1982: 371; Radchenko, 1993a: 79; Bolton, 1995b: 309; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 45; Tang et al., 1995: 40; Tiwari, 1999: 28; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 288; Zhou, 2001a: 49; Ghosh et al., 2005: 8; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 31; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 7; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 108; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 61; Bharti et al., 2016: 53; Jaitrong et al., 2016: 43; Rasheed et al., 2019: 435; Dias et al., 2020: 117; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 155; Wang et al., 2022: 134.
• [Note: Pseudoneoponera rufipes erroneously included in key to species of Brachyponera: Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 286.]

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla rufipes
• Ponera rufipes

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