• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952a: 127 (l.)
• Combination in Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera): Emery, 1893m: 24.
• Combination in Rhytidoponera: Emery, 1897: 548.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 24; Emery, 1911e: 37; Forel, 1915b: 11; Clark, 1928b: 169; Clark, 1936: 84 (redescription); Brown, 1958g: 203, 266, 272; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 42; Taylor, 1987a: 68; Bolton, 1995b: 378; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera nigra: Brown, 1958g: 272; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 42; Taylor, 1987a: 68; Bolton, 1995b: 379.
• Material of the unavailable name Rhytidoponera convexa violacea subumbrata referred here by Clark, 1936: 84.

Junior synonyms

• Rhytidoponera nigra Clark, 1936

Obsolete combinations

• Ectatomma convexum

Citations

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