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