• Emery, 1914f: 395 (m.)
• Combination in Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera): Emery, 1893m: 24.
• Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1911e: 39.
• Combination in Chalcoponera: Wheeler, 1935g: 10.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 24; Emery, 1911e: 39; Emery, 1912a: 78 (in key); Emery, 1914f: 393; Wheeler, 1935g: 10; Brown, 1958g: 203, 288 (in key); Ward, 1984: 144 (redescription); Taylor, 1987a: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 379; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera fulgens socrula: Brown, 1958g: 203; Ward, 1984: 144; Taylor, 1987a: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 379.

Junior synonyms

• Rhytidoponera fulgens socrula Emery, 1914

Obsolete combinations

• Ectatomma fulgens

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Camacho, G. P.; Franco, W.; Branstetter, M. G.; Pie, M. R.; Longino, J. T.; Schultz, T. R.; Feitosa, R. M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): a new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 5:1-20. 10.1093/isd/ixab026 PDF
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