• Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 258; Dalla Torre, 1893: 37.
• Junior synonym of Neoponera villosa: Forel, 1899b: 14.
• Junior synonym of Pachycondyla montezumia: Emery, 1911e: 75; Creighton, 1950a: 44; Smith, 1951c: 785.
• Junior synonym of Pachycondyla harpax: Emery, 1895d: 266; Pergande, 1896: 873; Wheeler, 1900b: 2; Wheeler, 1902g: 25; Wheeler, 1908h: 401; Brown, 1950g: 247; Kempf, 1972b: 174; Smith, 1979: 1340; Brandão, 1991: 365; Bolton, 1995b: 307; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 374; Marcineiro & Lattke, 2024: 24.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera amplinoda

Citations

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