19 species
Taxonomic history
| Heteroponera in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 43. |
| Heteroponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382. |
| Heteroponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1911e PDF: 35; Forel, 1917 PDF: 236; all subsequent authors to the following. |
| Heteroponera in Heteroponerinae, Heteroponerini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 47, 177. |
| Heteroponera as subgenus of Acanthoponera: Forel, 1917 PDF: 236. |
| Heteroponera as junior synonym of Acanthoponera: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Emery, 1911e PDF: 35; Wheeler, 1922: 643; Wheeler, 1923f PDF: 179. |
| Heteroponera as genus: Brown, 1952h: 70; Kusnezov, 1956a PDF: 13; Brown, 1958g: 194; all subsequent authors. |
Heteroponera brounii
Heteroponera carinifrons
Heteroponera dentinodis
Heteroponera dolo
Heteroponera flava
Heteroponera imbellis
Heteroponera inca
Heteroponera leae
Heteroponera mayri
Heteroponera microps
Heteroponera monticola
Heteroponera panamensis
Heteroponera relicta