• Lectotype designation: Seifert, 2003d: 68.
• Subspecies of Hypoponera punctatissima: Donisthorpe, 1927c: 76.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera punctatissima: Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 214; Seifert, 2003d: 69; Radchenko, 2016: 72.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera punctatissima exacta

Citations

• Atanassov, N.; Dlussky, G. M. 1992. Fauna of Bulgaria. Hymenoptera, Formicidae. [In Bulgarian.]. Fauna na Bûlgariya 22:1-310.
• Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Donisthorpe, H. 1927c. British ants, their life history and classification (2nd edn.). London: G. Routledge and Sons, xvi + 436 pp.
• Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Ukraine. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kiev: I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 496 pp.
• Santschi, F. 1923a. Notes sur les fourmis paléarctiques. 4ème note. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 23:133-137. PDF
• Seifert, B. 2003d. Hypoponera punctatissima (Roger) and H. schauinslandi (Emery) - two morphologically and biologically distinct species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 75(1):61-81. PDF