• Crawley, 1922a: 435 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1964b: 448 (l.)
• Combination in Ectatomma: Mayr, 1863a: 410.
• Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1911e: 39.
• Combination in Chalcoponera: Clark, 1929b: 121.
• Combination in Rhytidoponera: Brown, 1954g: 9.
• Junior synonym of Rhytidoponera metallica: Mayr, 1863a: 410.
• Subspecies of Rhytidoponera metallica: Dalla Torre, 1893: 25.
• Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 39; Emery, 1912a: 77 (in key); Crawley, 1922a: 435; Viehmeyer, 1924b: 226; Clark, 1929b: 121; Brown, 1954g: 9; Brown, 1958g: 202; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 40; Taylor, 1987a: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 378; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera arnoldi: Brown, 1954g: 9; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 40; Taylor, 1987a: 67; Bolton, 1995b: 378.

Junior synonyms

• Rhytidoponera arnoldi Forel, 1915

Obsolete combinations

• Ponera metallica aspera

Citations

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