Rhytidoponera nitidiventris Ward, 1984: 164, figs. 63, 64, 69, 70 (w.) NEW CALEDONIA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: New Caledonia: Grottes de Koum, 40 m., 20°32’S, 164°20’E, 3.v.1980, acc. no. 4206, in soil at base of sapling, rainforest (P.S. Ward). Primary type depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: paratypes with same data as holotype but acc. nos 4205, 4206 (P.S. Ward). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, BPBM, MCZC, MNHN, PSWC. Secondary type specimens: CASENT0281325, CASENT0900539.