• [Type-species not Ponera metallica Smith, 1858a (now Rhytidoponera metallica Smith, 1858a), unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g: 172; discussed by Emery, 1912d: 271; Wheeler, 1913a: 79.]
• Rhytidoponera in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 731 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23 [Ponerinae].
• Rhytidoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Rhytidoponera incertae sedis in Ponerinae: Viana & Haedo Rossi, 1957: 109.
• Rhytidoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Emery, 1911e: 26; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 45.
• Rhytidoponera in Ectatomminae, Ectatommini: Bolton, 2003: 46, 175; Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 659.
• Rhytidoponera as junior synonym of Ectatomma: Roger, 1863b: 17.
• Rhytidoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Mayr, 1862: 731; Mayr, 1863a: 453; Mayr, 1867a: 88; Mayr, 1887: 539; Forel, 1892c: 334; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Emery, 1895l: 767; Forel, 1906b: 86; Forel, 1907j: 268; Forel, 1910b: 10; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Wheeler, 1911g: 172.
• Rhytidoponera as genus: Emery, 1897: 547; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Emery, 1911e: 36; Emery, 1912a: 77; Wheeler, 1913a: 79; Forel, 1915b: 14; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 724; Brown, 1953c: 2; Brown, 1958g: 198; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 45; Bolton, 2003: 46, 175.
• Rhytidoponera as senior synonym of Chalcoponera: Brown, 1953c: 2; Brown, 1958g: 198; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 45; Bolton, 2003: 175; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.
• [Ryhtidoponera: incorrect subsequent spelling by Forel, 1892c: 334.]
• [Ritidoponera: incorrect subsequent spelling by Santschi, 1932d: 11.]

Junior synonyms

• Chalcoponera Emery, 1897
  Obsolete classification(s): Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera)

Obsolete classifications

• Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera)
• Rhytidoponera (Rhytidoponera)

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