• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 307.
• Combination in Ophthalmopone: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 124.
• Status as species: Forel, 1910f: 422; Emery, 1911e: 70; Wheeler, 1922: 769; Santschi, 1930b: 54; Menozzi, 1939c: 98; Bolton, 1995b: 307.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla mocquerysi

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. 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.
• Emery, C. 1902c. Note mirmecologiche. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (n.s.)6:22-34.
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Fisher, B. L.; Bolton, B. 2016. Ants of the world. Ants of Africa and Madagascar. A guide to the genera. Berkeley: University of California Press, ix + 503 pp.
• Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1939c. Hymenoptera Formicidae. Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana 3:97-110.
• Santschi, F. 1930b. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola, 1928-1929. Formicides de l'Angola. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 37:53-81. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.