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Genus: Rhytidoponera

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Subfamily: Ectatomminae Genus: Rhytidoponera

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 105 species, 2 subspecies

Fossil: 1 species

Rhytidoponera Mayr, 1862 PDF: 731 [as subgenus of Ectatomma] Type-species: Ponera araneoides, by subsequent designation of Emery, 1911e PDF: 37. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Type-species not Ponera metallica, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 172; see Emery, 1912d PDF: 271 and Wheeler, 1913a PDF: 79.].
Rhytidoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Emery, 1911e PDF: 26; Forel, 1917 PDF: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; all subsequent authors to the following.
Rhytidoponera as junior synonym of Ectatomma: Roger, 1863b PDF: 17.
Rhytidoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 731; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 453; Mayr, 1887 PDF: 539; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 135.
Rhytidoponera as genus: Emery, 1897: 547; Emery, 1911e PDF: 36; Wheeler, 1913a PDF: 79; Forel, 1917 PDF: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; all subsequent authors.
Genus Rhytidoponera references
Mayr, 1867a PDF: 88 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1876 PDF: 90 (Australia species key); Mayr, 1887 PDF: 539 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e PDF: 36 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1912a PDF: 77 (Rhytidoponera metallica group revision, key); Clark, 1936 PDF: 16 (Australia species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 25, 27 (Asia Chalcoponera, Rhytidoponera checklists); Brown, 1954g: 2 (Rhytidoponera impressa & Rhytidoponera metallica groups, species); Brown, 1958g: 197, 288 (review of genus, New Caledonia species key); Wilson, 1958g PDF: 304 (Melanesia & Moluccas species key); Ward, 1980a PDF: 478 (Australia & New Guinea Rhytidoponera impressa group, key); Ward, 1984 PDF: 135 (New Caledonia species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 40 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 67 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 378 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 204 (Australia synopsis); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 137 (south-western Australia species key).
Genus Rhytidoponera references
Mayr, 1867a PDF: 88 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1876 PDF: 90 (Australia species key); Mayr, 1887 PDF: 539 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e PDF: 36 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1912a PDF: 77 (Rhytidoponera metallica group revision, key); Clark, 1936 PDF: 16 (Australia species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 25, 27 (Asia Chalcoponera, Rhytidoponera checklists); Brown, 1954g: 2 (Rhytidoponera impressa & Rhytidoponera metallica groups, species); Brown, 1958g: 197, 288 (review of genus, New Caledonia species key); Wilson, 1958g PDF: 304 (Melanesia & Moluccas species key); Ward, 1980a PDF: 478 (Australia & New Guinea Rhytidoponera impressa group, key); Ward, 1984 PDF: 135 (New Caledonia species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 40 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 67 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 378 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 204 (Australia synopsis); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 137 (south-western Australia species key).

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