Taxonomic history
Lectotype designation: Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013a PDF: 120.Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b PDF: 45.Combination in Bothroponera: Forel, 1891c PDF: 129; Joma & Mackay, 2013 10.1155/2013/917847 PDF: 2; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 76.Status as species: Forel, 1891c PDF: 129 (redescription); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 36; Forel, 1907h PDF: 14; Emery, 1911e PDF: 78; Wheeler, 1922: 1007; Bolton, 1995b: 304; Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013a PDF: 120 (redescription).