Rhytidoponera (Rhytidoponera) nitens Donisthorpe, 1949h: 403 (w.m.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Finschhafen, 10.iv.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 7 paratype workers, 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype male Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Secondary type depository: CASC. Type notes: Type-data follows Wilson, 1958g: 318. Donisthorpe originally gave Dutch New Guinea: Maffin Bay, 5.v.1944, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross) as type-data for all the material, which Wilson concluded was incorrect after examination of the whole series.