• Emery, 1895d: 265 (w.); Smith, 1930b: 390 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952a: 135 (l.)
• Combination in Sysphingta: Mayr, 1866a: 501.
• Combination in Proceratium: Mayr, 1886d: 437.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 448; Mayr, 1866a: 501; Mayr, 1886d: 437; Cresson, 1887: 258; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18; Emery, 1895d: 264; Wheeler, 1908h: 401; Wheeler, 1910a: 561; Emery, 1911e: 50; Smith, 1928b: 244; Smith, 1930b: 390; Smith, 1944d: 14; Creighton, 1950a: 39; Smith, 1951c: 784; Brown, 1958g: 247; Smith, 1958c: 111; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 347; Snelling, 1967: 9 (in key); Smith, 1979: 1338; Brown, 1980c: 343 (in key); Ward, 1988: 116 (in key); Deyrup et al., 1989: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 366; Deyrup, 2003: 46; Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 397 (redescription); Coovert, 2005: 25; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 68; Deyrup, 2017: 18.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera crocea

Citations

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