• Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1911e: 39
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 39; Emery, 1912a: 78 (in key); Brown, 1958g: 202, 264; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 40; Taylor, 1987a: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 378; Heterick, 2009: 139; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.

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