• Subspecies of Ponera japonica: Wheeler, 1929h: 59; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 70.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera gleadowi: Taylor, 1967a: 76; Smith, 1979: 1342; Onoyama, 1989b: 5; Bolton, 1995b: 214; Imai et al., 2003: 213; Terayama, 2009: 113.
• Junior synonym of Hypoponera ragusai: Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 94.

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera japonica formosae

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
• 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
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• Onoyama, K. 1989b. Notes on the ants of the genus Hypoponera in Japan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Edaphologia 41:1-10. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
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• Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929h. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24:27-64. PDF