• Chalcoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
• Chalcoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1911e: 38; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 632.
• Chalcoponera as subgenus of Rhytidoponera: Emery, 1911e: 38; Emery, 1912a: 77; Forel, 1915b: 10; Forel, 1917: 236; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 632.
• Chalcoponera as genus: Emery, 1897: 548; Ashmead, 1905c: 382; Wheeler, 1922: 643; Clark, 1934c: 58; Clark, 1941b: 83; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 25.
• Chalcoponera as junior synonym of Rhytidoponera: Brown, 1953c: 2; Brown, 1958g: 198; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 24; Bolton, 2003: 175; Camacho et al., 2022: 12

Obsolete classifications

• Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera)

Citations

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