• [Unresolved junior primary homonym of Hypoponera coeca Santschi, 1914d (Bolton, 1995b: 366).]
• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 68.
• Junior synonym of Proceratium papuanum: Brown, 1958g: 248; Bolton, 1995b: 366; Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 334.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera caeca

Citations

• Baroni Urbani, C.; de Andrade, M. L. 2003a. The ant genus Proceratium in the extant and fossil record (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Monografie (Turin) 36:1-492. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
• 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
• Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506. PDF