• Lectotype designation: Brown, 1958g: 275.
• Mayr, 1866b: 891 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952a: 125 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1964b: 449 (l.); Crozier, 1969a: 241 (k.); Imai et al., 1977: 347 (k.)
• Combination in Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera): Mayr, 1862: 732; Mayr, 1887: 539.
• Combination in Ectatomma: Roger, 1863b: 17; Emery, 1887f: 444.
• Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1897: 548.
• Combination in Chalcoponera: Wheeler, 1935g: 10.
• Status as species: Roger, 1860: 308; Mayr, 1862: 732; Mayr, 1863a: 410; Roger, 1863b: 17; Mayr, 1865: 72; Lowne, 1865b: 334; Mayr, 1866b: 891; Mayr, 1876: 90 (in key); Mayr, 1886c: 358; Emery, 1887f: 444; Dalla Torre, 1893: 24; Forel, 1907j: 270; Wheeler, 1909a: 26; Emery, 1911e: 39; Stitz, 1911a: 354; Emery, 1912a: 78; Emery, 1914a: 180; Forel, 1915b: 14; Wheeler, 1915h: 805; Crawley, 1918: 88; Poulton, 1922: 121; Clark, 1928c: 40; Wheeler, 1935g: 10; Clark, 1938: 362; Brown, 1958g: 204, 275; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 20, 102; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 45; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 380; Don, 2007: 81; Heterick, 2009: 140; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera caeciliae: Brown, 1958g: 204, 275; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 45; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 380.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera pulchra: Brown, 1958g: 204, 275; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 45; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 380.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera metallica purpurascens: Brown, 1958g: 204, 275; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 45; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 380.
• Senior synonym of Rhytidoponera metallica varians: Brown, 1958g: 204, 276; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 45; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 380.

Junior synonyms

• Rhytidoponera caeciliae Viehmeyer, 1924
• Rhytidoponera metallica purpurascens Wheeler, 1915
• Rhytidoponera metallica varians Crawley, 1922
• Rhytidoponera pulchra (Clark, 1941)
  Obsolete combination(s): Chalcoponera pulchra

Obsolete combinations

• Chalcoponera metallica
• Ectatomma metallicum
• Ponera metallica

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