- [Type-species not Rhytidoponera metallica, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g: 172; see Emery, 1912d: 271 and Wheeler, 1913a: 79.]
- Rhytidoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
- Rhytidoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Emery, 1911e: 26; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; all subsequent authors to the following.
- 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, 1887: 539; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Emery, 1895l: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135.
- Rhytidoponera as genus: Emery, 1897: 547; Emery, 1911e: 36; Wheeler, 1913a: 79; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; all subsequent authors.
Junior synonyms
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Chalcoponera
Emery, 1897
Obsolete classification(s): Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera)
Obsolete classifications
Genus Rhytidoponera references
Mayr, 1867a: 88 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1876: 90 (Australia species key); Mayr, 1887: 539 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 36 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1912a: 77 (Rhytidoponera metallica group revision, key); Clark, 1936: 16 (Australia species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 25, 27 (Asia Chalcoponera, Rhytidoponera checklists); Brown, 1954g: 2 (Rhytidoponera impressa & Rhytidoponera metallica groups, species); Brown, 1958g: 197, 288 (review of genus, New Caledonia species key); Wilson, 1958g: 304 (Melanesia & Moluccas species key); Ward, 1980a: 478 (Australia & New Guinea Rhytidoponera impressa group, key); Ward, 1984: 135 (New Caledonia species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 40 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 67 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 378 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 204 (Australia synopsis); Heterick, 2009: 137 (south-western Australia species key); Boudinot, 2015: 56 (male identification); Cantone, 2017: 145 (brief male diagnosis)
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