• Subspecies of Hypoponera gleadowi: Emery, 1900b: 316 (in key); Emery, 1911e: 91; Forel, 1912a: 48; Wheeler, 1934i: 9; Wheeler, 1935g: 12; Wheeler, 1936g: 4.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera punctatissima: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 29 (in text).
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera gleadowi: Wilson, 1958g: 329; Onoyama, 1989b: 5; Bolton, 1995b: 214.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera ragusai: Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 94.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera gleadowi decipiens

Citations

• 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
• Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:310-338. PDF
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899a. Heterogyna (Formicidae). Fauna Hawaiiensis 1:116-122. PDF
• Forel, A. 1912a. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Formicidae (Hym.) [Combined reference]. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1:45-81. PDF
• Onoyama, K. 1989b. Notes on the ants of the genus Hypoponera in Japan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Edaphologia 41:1-10. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1934i. Revised list of Hawaiian ants. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 10(21):1-21.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
• Wheeler, W. M. 1936g. Ants from the Society, Austral, Tuamotu and Mangareva Islands. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 12(18):3-17. 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
• Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF