• Taylor, 1967a: 82 (m.l.)
• Combination in Ponera: Wilson, 1957b: 367
• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 73; Wilson, 1957b: 367 (redescription); Taylor, 1967a: 80 (redescription); Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 23; Dlussky, 1994a: 53; Bolton, 1995b: 361; Wetterer, 2002: 128; Clouse, 2007b: 270; Sarnat et al., 2013: 73; Leong et al., 2019: 19 (in key).
• Senior synonym of Ponera ratardorum: Taylor, 1967a: 80; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 24; Bolton, 1995b: 361.

Junior synonyms

• Ponera ratardorum Wilson, 1957

Obsolete combinations

• Pseudocryptopone incerta

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Clouse, R. M. 2007b. The ants of Micronesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Micronesica 39:171-295. PDF
• Dlussky, G. M. 1994a. Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.]. Pp. 48-93 in: Puzatchenko, Y. G.; Golovatch, S. I.; Dlussky, G. M.; Diakonov, K. N.; Zakharov, A. A.; Korganova, G. A. 1994. Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 254 pp.
• Leong, C.-M.; Guénard, B.; Shiao, S.-F.; Lin, C.-C. 2019. Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species. Zootaxa 4594:1-86. 10.11646/zootaxa.4594.1.1 PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1967a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 13:1-112. PDF
• Wetterer, J. K. 2002. Ants of Tonga. Pacific Science 56:125-135. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1933g. Three obscure genera of ponerine ants. American Museum Novitates 672:1-23. PDF
• Wilson, E. O. 1957b. The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 116:355-386. PDF
• Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF