Genus: Rhytidoponera

Current Valid Name:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 104 valid species

Fossil: 3 valid 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 Smith, 1858 (now Rhytidoponera metallica (Smith, 1858)), unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 172; discussed by Emery, 1912d PDF: 271; Wheeler, 1913a PDF: 79.]

Rhytidoponera in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 731 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 23 [Ponerinae].

Rhytidoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382.

Rhytidoponera incertae sedis in Ponerinae: Viana & Haedo Rossi, 1957 PDF: 109.

Rhytidoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Emery, 1911e PDF: 26; Forel, 1917 PDF: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 45.

Rhytidoponera in Ectatomminae, Ectatommini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 46, 175; Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019 PDF: 659.

Rhytidoponera as junior synonym of Ectatomma: Roger, 1863b PDF: 17.

Rhytidoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 731; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 453; Mayr, 1867a PDF: 88; Mayr, 1887 PDF: 539; Forel, 1892c PDF: 334; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 23; Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Forel, 1906b PDF: 86; Forel, 1907j PDF: 268; Forel, 1910b PDF: 10; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 135; Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 172.

Rhytidoponera as genus: Emery, 1897: 547; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Emery, 1911e PDF: 36; Emery, 1912a PDF: 77; Wheeler, 1913a PDF: 79; Forel, 1915b PDF: 14; Forel, 1917 PDF: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 724; Brown, 1953c PDF: 2; Brown, 1958g PDF: 198; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 45; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 46, 175.

Rhytidoponera as senior synonym of Chalcoponera: Brown, 1953c PDF: 2; Brown, 1958g PDF: 198; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 45; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 175; Camacho et al., 2022 10.1093/isd/ixab026 PDF: 12.

[Ryhtidoponera: incorrect subsequent spelling by Forel, 1892c PDF: 334.]

[Ritidoponera: incorrect subsequent spelling by Santschi, 1932d: 11.]

Genus Rhytidoponera catalogues

Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 23 (as part of Ectatomma); Emery, 1911e PDF: 37, 38 (Rhytidoponera (Rhytidoponera), Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera)); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 25, 27 (Asia Chalcoponera, Rhytidoponera); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 40 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 67 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand); Bolton, 1995b: 378.

Genus Rhytidoponera references

Mayr, 1867a PDF: 88 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1876 PDF: 90 (Australia species key (as Ectatomma)); Mayr, 1887 PDF: 539 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e PDF: 36 (diagnosis); Emery, 1912a PDF: 77 (Rhytidoponera metallica group revision, key); Clark, 1936 PDF: 16 (Australia species key); Brown, 1954g PDF: 2 (Rhytidoponera impressa & Rhytidoponera metallica groups, species); Brown, 1958g PDF: 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); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 204 (Australia synopsis); Andersen, 2007 PDF: 41 (Australia species groups); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 137 (south-western Australia species key); Boudinot, 2015 PDF: 56 (male identification); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 145 (brief male diagnosis); Heterick, 2021 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 PDF: 62 (Western Australia species key); Camacho et al., 2022 10.1093/isd/ixab026 PDF: 12 (diagnosis).

Taxon Page Images:

The green-headed ant Rhytidoponera metallica is a common soil-nesting ant in urban areas throughout Australia. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Image © Alex Wild. // Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Asia: Indonesia, Philippines, Timor-Leste
    Oceania: Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Australasia, Indomalaya
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Australasia, Indomalaya

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name	Status	Publication	Pages	ModsID	GoogleMaps
Rhytidoponera		Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 731, (download)	731	4445
Rhytidoponera		Crawley W. C., 1915, Ants from north and south-west Australia (G. F. Hill, Rowland Turner) and Christmas Island, Straits Settlements. Part 2, Ann. Mag Natur. Hist. 15, pp. 232-239: 232-233, (download)	232-233	6192

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Genus: Rhytidoponera Mayr, 1862

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