• [Brachyponera also described as new by Emery, 1901b: 43.]
• [Type-species not Ponera sennaarensis Mayr, 1862: unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1901b: 43; repeated by Emery, 1911e: 84; Wheeler, 1911g: 160; Wheeler, 1922: 777; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628; Smith, 1943e: 282; Smith, 1951c: 785; Brown, 1958h: 21; Wilson, 1958g: 346; Bolton, 1973a: 335; Smith, 1979: 1341; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 23.]
• Brachyponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Brachyponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1911e: 83; Forel, 1917: 237 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; subsequent authors.
• Brachyponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini, Odontomachus genus group: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
• Brachyponera as subgenus of Euponera: Emery, 1900b: 315; Emery, 1901b: 43; Forel, 1907j: 271; Emery, 1909d: 366; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 83; Santschi, 1914b: 50; Arnold, 1915: 72; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 649; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628.
• Brachyponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Snelling, 1981: 389 [provisional]; Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Bolton, 2003: 167; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 3.
• Brachyponera as genus: Bingham, 1903: 101; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wilson, 1958g: 346; Bolton, 1973a: 335; Smith, 1979: 1341; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 23; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256; Ogata, 1987a: 116; Taylor, 1987a: 9; Ogata, 1987a: 116; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.

Obsolete classifications

• Euponera (Brachyponera)
• Pachycondyla (Brachyponera)

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