• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 303.
• Combination in Brachyponera: Wilson, 1958g: 347; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 80.
• Subspecies of Brachyponera luteipes: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 63.
• Status as species: Wilson, 1958g: 347; Bolton, 1995b: 303.
• Senior synonym of Brachyponera karawaiewi Özdikmen, 2010c (unnecessary replacement name for Brachyponera arcuata Karavaiev, 1925b).

Junior synonyms

• Brachyponera karawaiewi (Özdikmen, 2010)
  Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla karawaiewi

Obsolete combinations

• Euponera luteipes arcuata

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.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1925b. Ponerinen (Fam. Formicidae) aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. (Fortsetzung). Konowia 4:115-131. 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
• Wilson, E. O. 1958g. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119:303-371. PDF