Protonym: Rhytidoponera (Rhytidoponera) nitens
Authorship Donisthorpe, 1949h: 403
Forms w.m.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea)
Primary type information Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Finschhafen, 10.iv.1944 (E.S. Ross). Type-depository: CASC.
Secondary type information Paratype-material: 7 paratype workers, 1 paratype male. Paratype-locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype male Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Paratype-depository: CASC.
Type notes Type-data follows Wilson, 1958g: 318. Donisthorpe originally gave Dutch New Guinea: Maffin Bay, 5.v.1944, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross) as type-data for all the material, which Wilson concluded was incorrect after examination of the whole series.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Rhytidoponera nitens Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Rhytidoponera strigosa (Emery, 1887)
Original combination