• Combination in Hypoponera: Bolton, 1995b: 215
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 215; Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 78 (redescription); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 220.
• Senior synonym of Hypoponera intermedia: Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 78

Junior synonyms

• Hypoponera intermedia (Bernard, 1953)
  Obsolete combination(s): Ponera intermedia

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera occidentalis

Citations

• Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843:1-118. PDF
• Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF