• Combination in Hypoponera: Bolton, 1995b: 216
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 216; Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 108 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera transvaalensis

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1947. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 7. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:131-167. PDF
• 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