• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 308.
• Combination in Mesoponera: Wilson, 1958g: 350; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 111.
• Subspecies of Mesoponera melanaria: Viehmeyer, 1924b: 228
• Status as species: Mann, 1919: 290 (redescription); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 64; Wilson, 1958g: 350; Bolton, 1995b: 308; Sarnat et al., 2013: 73.
• Senior synonym of Mesoponera pulchella: Wilson, 1958g: 350; Bolton, 1995b: 308.
• Senior synonym of Mesoponera viehmeyeri: Wilson, 1958g: 350; Bolton, 1995b: 308.

Junior synonyms

• Mesoponera pulchella (Donisthorpe, 1941)
  Obsolete combination(s): Euponera pulchella
• Mesoponera viehmeyeri (Donisthorpe, 1948)
  Obsolete combination(s): Euponera viehmeyeri

Obsolete combinations

• Euponera papuana

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. PDF
• Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF
• Viehmeyer, H. 1914d. Mayr's Gattung Ischnomyrmex (Hym.) nebst Beschreibung einiger neuer Arten aus anderen Gattungen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 37:601-612. PDF
• Viehmeyer, H. 1924b. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 13:219-229. 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