• Combination in Selenopone: Wheeler, 1933g: 21.
• Combination in Ponera: Wilson, 1957b: 382.
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 91; Wheeler, 1933g: 21; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 74; Wilson, 1957b: 382 (redescription); Wilson, 1958g: 338; Taylor, 1967a: 41 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 38; Taylor, 1987a: 63; Bolton, 1995b: 362.

Citations

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