• Wheeler, 1928c: 5 (q.); Imai et al., 1984: 5 (k.)
• Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b: 46.
• Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 309.
• Combination in Bothroponera: Emery, 1893m: 36; Emery, 1895m: 459; Wheeler, 1928c: 5; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 50; Joma & Mackay, 2013: 2; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
• Combination in Boltonopone: Fisher et al., 2025: 326.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 36; Emery, 1895m: 459; Forel, 1900f: 326; Bingham, 1903: 99; Emery, 1911e: 77; Wheeler, 1928c: 5; Wheeler, 1930k: 59; Mukerjee, 1934: 3; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 50, 72 (combinations in Bothroponera, Ponera, respectively); Bolton, 1995b: 309; Tiwari, 1999: 27; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 108; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 61; Bharti et al., 2016: 48; Dias et al., 2020: 103; Fisher et al., 2025: 326.

Obsolete combinations

• Bothroponera rubiginosa
• Ponera rubiginosa

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