Taxonomic history
Incertae sedis in Ponera: Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 40.Incertae sedis in Ponerinae: Taylor, 1964 PDF: 139.Combination in Pachycondyla: Bolton, 1995b: 305.Incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 156.Status as species: Scudder, 1891 PDF: 726; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 39; Handlirsch, 1907: 879; Taylor, 1964 PDF: 139; Burnham, 1979 PDF: 109; Keilbach, 1982: 273; Bolton, 1995b: 305; Dlussky, 2009 PDF: 1054 (redescription); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009 PDF: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014 PDF: 115.