• Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1911e: 39
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 39; Emery, 1912a: 77 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 25; Wilson, 1958g: 306; Brown, 1958g: 202; Ward, 1980a: 492; Bolton, 1995b: 378; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.

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