Rhopalopone

This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Holcoponera.

Nomenclature

 * RHOPALOPONE [junior synonym of Holcoponera]
 * Rhopalopone Emery, 1897d: 549. Type-species: Rhopalopone epinotalis Emery, 1900c: 311, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

 * Rhopalopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Ashmead, 1905b: 382; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 135.
 * Rhopalopone in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1911d: 34 [subtribe Typhlomyrmecini]; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 642; subsequent authors.
 * Rhopalopone as genus: Emery, 1911d: 34; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 642; Borgmeier, 1923: 54; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 724.
 * Rhopalopone as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 211; Kempf, 1972a: 111; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 45; Bolton, 2003: 174.
 * Rhopalopone as junior synonym of Holcoponera: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.