Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Ophthalmopone berthoudi Forel, 1890c PDF: cxiii (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic. Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: South Africa: Transvaal, Valdezia (P. Berthoud). Type-depository: MHNG. AntCat AntWikiTaxonomic history
Forel, 1894b PDF: 76 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b PDF: 1203 (l.).Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 303.Combination in Ophthalmopone: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 124.Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 31; Emery, 1911e PDF: 69; Forel, 1913a PDF: 108; Arnold, 1915: 50 (redescription); Wheeler, 1922: 768; Stitz, 1923: 143; Santschi, 1937d PDF: 214; Prins, 1963 PDF: 98; Peeters & Crewe, 1985 PDF: 29; Peeters & Crewe, 1987 PDF: 201; Bolton, 1995b: 303; Hita Garcia et al., 2013 PDF: 220.