Rhytidoponera confusa Ward, 1980a: 482, figs. 1-3, 16, 17, 26, 28 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Royal Nat. Park, 34°09’S, 151°01’E, 50 m., 11.i.1977, acc. 2129, in rotten log, rainforest gully below waterfall (P.S. Ward). Primary type depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: “70 accessions (nest series) from the type-locality”, 1974-1978 (P.S. Ward). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, “Australian State Museums” (presumably some or all of AMSC, MVMA, QMBA, SAMA, WAMP). Secondary type specimen: CASENT0900530.