• [Also described as new by Wheeler, 1935g: 13.]
• Replacement name for Ponera leae oculata Wheeler, 1927i. [Junior primary homonym of Pseudoneoponera oculata Smith, 1858a.]
• Status as species: Taylor, 1960: 179 (redescription).
• Junior synonym of Ponera leae: Taylor, 1967a: 89; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 38; Taylor, 1987a: 63; Bolton, 1995b: 362.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera leae norfolkensis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Taylor, R. W. 1960. Taxonomic notes on the ants Ponera leae Forel and Ponera norfolkensis (Wheeler) (Hymenoptera - Formicidae). Pacific Science 14:178-180. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1967a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 13:1-112. 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. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Cambridge) 42:68-72. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.