• Replacement name for Austroponera castanea Smith, 1876c. [Junior primary homonym of Austroponera castanea Mayr, 1865.]
• Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 103 (q.)
• Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Emery, 1911e: 81.
• Combination in Mesoponera: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 103.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 303.
• Combination in Austroponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 182.
• Junior synonym of Austroponera castanea Mayr, 1865: Forel, 1905d: 353; Emery, 1911e: 81.
• Status as species: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 103; Taylor, 1987a: 39; Bolton, 1995b: 303; Don, 2007: 70.

Obsolete combinations

• Pachycondyla castaneicolor
• Ponera castaneicolor

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.
• Don, W. 2007. Ants of New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 239 pp.
• Emery, C. 1893m. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in various genera attributed to Emery.]. Pp. 4-266 in: Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1905d. A revision of the species of the Formicidae (ants) of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 37:353-355. 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
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF