Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Ponera punctatissima var. trigona Mayr, 1887 PDF: 537 (w.q.) BRAZIL (Santa Catarina). Neotropic. AntCat AntWiki HOLTaxonomic history
Combination in Ponera (Hypoponera): Santschi, 1938b PDF: 79.Combination in Hypoponera: Taylor, 1968a PDF: 65.Subspecies of Hypoponera punctatissima: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 41.Subspecies of Hypoponera confinis: Emery, 1895n: 64; Emery, 1896g PDF: 54 (in key).Status as species: Forel, 1893j PDF: 364; Emery, 1895d PDF: 268; Forel, 1895b PDF: 116; Emery, 1906c PDF: 116; Wheeler, 1908h PDF: 405; Emery, 1911e PDF: 92; Forel, 1913m PDF: 204; Bruch, 1914 PDF: 214; Mann, 1916 PDF: 416; Santschi, 1916e PDF: 366; Gallardo, 1918c PDF: 80; Wheeler, 1922n PDF: 317; Borgmeier, 1923: 74; Menozzi, 1927c PDF: 267; Menozzi, 1931b PDF: 261; Santschi, 1933f PDF: 106; Eidmann, 1936a PDF: 36; Wheeler, 1936g PDF: 5; Weber, 1948b PDF: 79; Creighton, 1950a PDF: 49; Kusnezov, 1953c PDF: 336; Kempf, 1962b PDF: 10 (redescription); Taylor, 1968a PDF: 65; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 124; Alayo, 1974 PDF: 7 (in key); Kempf & Lenko, 1976 PDF: 57; Brandão, 1991 PDF: 347; Bolton, 1995b: 216; Wild, 2007b PDF: 39; Feitosa, 2015c: 98; Dash & Mackay, 2019 PDF: 567.Itapúa (ALWC). Literature records: Ñeembucú , “Paraguay” (s. loc.) (Emery 1896a, Fowler 1981).