• [Misspelled as convexiscula by Santschi, 1920g: 180.]
• Combination in Hypoponera: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 31.
• Subspecies of Hypoponera trigona: Emery, 1900b: 316 (in key); Emery, 1911e: 92; Emery, 1914a: 180; Emery, 1914f: 398; Santschi, 1920g: 180; Santschi, 1928a: 43; Wheeler, 1932g: 14; Wheeler, 1935g: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 214.
• Status as species: Santschi, 1938b: 79; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 31; Taylor, 1987a: 29.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera convexiuscula
• Ponera trigona convexiuscula

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:310-338. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Emery, C. 1914a. Formiche d'Australia e di Samoa raccolte dal Prof. Silvestri nel 1913. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:179-186. PDF
• Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. PDF
• Forel, A. 1900b. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltés par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.-J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44:54-77. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1920g. Cinq nouvelles notes sur les fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 53:163-186. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1928a. Formicidae (Fourmis). Insects Samoa 5:41-58. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1938b. Notes sur quelques Ponera Latr. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 43:78-80. 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
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1932g. Ants from the Society Islands. Bulletin of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 113:13-19. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.