• Forel, 1913b: 306 (m.).
• Combination in Bothroponera: Joma & Mackay, 2013: 3.
• Subspecies of Bothroponera pumicosa: Forel, 1913a: 109; Forel, 1913b: 306; Arnold, 1915: 63; Wheeler, 1922: 771.
• Junior synonym of Bothroponera strigulosa: Arnold, 1952a: 460 (in text); Bolton, 1995b: 303.
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 76; Joma & Mackay, 2013: 3; Joma & Mackay, 2015: 545 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Bothroponera cariosa variolosa: Joma & Mackay, 2015: 545.

Junior synonyms

• Bothroponera cariosa variolosa Arnold, 1947
  Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla variolosa, Bothroponera variolosa

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla berthoudi

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
• Arnold, G. 1952a. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1901k. Nouvelles espèces de Ponerinae. (Avec un nouveau sous-genre et une espèce nouvelle d'Eciton). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 9:325-353. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913a. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:108-147. PDF
• Forel, A. 1913b. Formicides du Congo Belge récoltés par MM. Bequaert, Luja, etc. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 2:306-351. PDF
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus Bothroponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche 2013 Article ID 917847:8 pp. 10.1155/2013/917847 PDF
• Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2015. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera pumicosa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Sociobiology 62:538-563. 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.