Rhytidoponera chalybaea

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia, New Zealand. Indo-Australian Region: Solomon Islands.

Nomenclature

 *  chalybaea. Rhytidoponera impressa var. chalybaea Emery, 1901a: 51 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971b: 1201 (l.); Imai, Crozier & Taylor, 1977: 347 (k.). Combination in R. (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1911d: 39. Raised to species and senior synonym of cyrus: Brown, 1954g: 4. See also: Ward, 1980: 478.
 * cyrus. Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) cyrus Forel, 1910b: 13 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1911d: 39. Junior synonym of chalybaea: Brown, 1954g: 4.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brown W. L., Jr. 1954. Systematic and other notes on some of the smaller species of the ant genus Rhytidoponera Mayr. Breviora 33: 1-11.
 * Emery C. 1901. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45: 32-54.
 * Forel A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Ark. Zool. 9(16): 1-119
 * Nakamura A., C. P. Catterall, A. P. N. House, R. L. Kitching, and C. J. Burwell. 2007. The use of ants and other soil and litter arthropods as bio-indicators of the impacts of rainforest clearing and subsequent land use. Journal of Insect Conservation 11: 177-186.
 * Taylor R. W. 1987. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41: 1-92.
 * Ward P. S. 1980. A systematic revision of the Rhytidoponera impressa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia and New Guinea. Aust. J. Zool. 28: 475-498.