• Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 222.
• [Also described as new by Borgmeier, 1928a: 39.]
• Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Borgmeier, 1959a: 315.
• Combination in Mesoponera: Kempf, 1972b: 141.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 303.
• Combination in Neoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 151.
• Status as species: Borgmeier, 1959a: 315; Kempf, 1972b: 141; Bolton, 1995b: 303; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 222 (redescription); Feitosa, 2015c: 99.

Obsolete combinations

• Leptogenys bucki

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1927b. Algumas novas formigas brasileiras. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:57-65. PDF
• Borgmeier, T. 1928a. Einige neue Ameisen aus Brasilien. Zoologischer Anzeiger 75:32-39. PDF
• Borgmeier, T. 1959a. Myrmecologische Studien. II. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 31:309-319. PDF
• 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.
• Feitosa, R. M. 2015c. Lista das formigas poneromorfas do Brasil. Pp. 95-102 in: Delabie, J. H. C.; Feitosa, R. M.; Serrão, J. E.; Mariano, C. S. F.; Majer, J. D. (eds.) 2015. As formigas poneromorfas do Brasil. Ilhéus-Bahia: Editora da UESC, 477 pp. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. 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