Taxonomic history
Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b PDF: 45.Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 304.Combination in Bothroponera: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 717; Roger, 1863b PDF: 16; Wheeler, 1922: 72; Joma & Mackay, 2013 10.1155/2013/917847 PDF: 3; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 76.Status as species: Roger, 1863b PDF: 16; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 397; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 36; Emery, 1911e PDF: 76; Arnold, 1915: 60; Wheeler, 1922: 72 (in key); 769; Arnold, 1947 PDF: 132; Arnold, 1952a PDF: 461 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 303; Joma & Mackay, 2015 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845 PDF: 549 (redescription).