• Imai et al., 1977: 347 (k.)
• Combination in Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera): Emery, 1893m: 24.
• Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1897: 549.
• Subspecies of Rhytidoponera impressa: Dalla Torre, 1893: 24; Emery, 1895h: 348; Emery, 1897: 549; Emery, 1911e: 39; Viehmeyer, 1914c: 515; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 26.
• Status as species: Brown, 1954g: 7; Wilson, 1958g: 315; Brown, 1958g: 204; Ward, 1980a: 491 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 46; Taylor, 1987a: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 380; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera impressa splendidum: Brown, 1954g: 7; Ward, 1980a: 491; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 47; Taylor, 1987a: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 380.

Junior synonyms

• Rhytidoponera impressa splendidum (Forel, 1910)
  Obsolete combination(s): Ectatomma impressum splendidum

Obsolete combinations

• Ectatomma impressum purpureum

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Camacho, G. P.; Franco, W.; Branstetter, M. G.; Pie, M. R.; Longino, J. T.; Schultz, T. R.; Feitosa, R. M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): a new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 5:1-20. 10.1093/isd/ixab026 PDF
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• Emery, C. 1893m. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in various genera attributed to Emery.]. Pp. 4-266 in: Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1895h. Descriptions de quelques fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:345-358. PDF
• Emery, C. 1897. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale. XVIII. Formiche raccolte nella Nuova Guinea dal Dott. Lamberto Loria. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 38[=(2)18]:546-594.
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