• Combination in Trachymesopus: Brown, 1963a: 7.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 309.
• Combination in Austroponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 182.
• Status as species: Clark, 1938: 362; Brown, 1952i: 138; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 52; Taylor, 1987a: 80; Bolton, 1995b: 309; Heterick, 2009: 135.
• Senior synonym of Austroponera clarki: Brown, 1952i: 138; Heterick, 2009: 135 (in text).

Junior synonyms

• Austroponera clarki (Wheeler, 1934)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla clarki, Euponera clarki

Obsolete combinations

• Euponera rufonigra

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. 1952i. Notes on two well-known Australian ant species. Western Australian Naturalist 3:137-138.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1963a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora 190:1-10. PDF
• 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.
• Clark, J. 1934b. New Australian ants. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:21-47. PDF
• Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
• Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.