• Junior synonym of Hypoponera punctatissima: Saunders, 1880: 212; White, 1884: 259; Dalla Torre, 1893: 41; Emery, 1911e: 91; Wheeler, 1922: 782; Santschi, 1923a: 134; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 216; Seifert, 2003d: 69; Radchenko, 2016: 71.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera tarda

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Charsley, R. S. 1877b. A new species of ant found in Britain. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 14:162-163. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1927c. British ants, their life history and classification (2nd edn.). London: G. Routledge and Sons, xvi + 436 pp.
• Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
• 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
• Saunders, E. 1880. Synopsis of the British Heterogyna and fossorial Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1880:201-304. 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
• White, W. F. 1884. Ants and their ways. With illustrations, and an appendix giving a complete list of genera and species of the British ants. London: Religious Tract Society, 279 pp. PDF