Rhytidoponera pulchella

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: New Caledonia.

Nomenclature

 * . Ectatomma pulchellum Emery, 1883: 149 (w.) NEW CALEDONIA.
 * Type-material: holotype workers.
 * Type-locality: New Caledonia: (no further data).
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * Emery, 1914f: 396 (m.).
 * Combination in E. (Rhytidoponera): Dalla Torre, 1893: 25;
 * combination in Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera): Emery, 1897d: 548;
 * combination in Chalcoponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 10.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 25; Emery, 1911d: 39; Emery, 1912a: 78 (in key); Emery, 1914f: 396; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 10; Brown, 1958g: 204, 291; Ward, 1984: 167 (redescription); Taylor, 1987a: 72; Bolton, 1995b: 380.
 * Distribution: New Caledonia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brown W. L., Jr. 1958. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 118: 173-362.
 * Emery C. 1883. Alcune formiche della Nuova Caledonia. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 15: 145-151.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Emery, C. 1914. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437.
 * Jennings J. T., L. Krogmann, and C. Burwell. 2013. Review of the hymenopteran fauna of New Caledonia with a checklist of species. Zootaxa 3736(1): 1-53.
 * 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. 1984. A revision of the ant genus Rhytidoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in New Caledonia. Aust. J. Zool. 32: 131-175.
 * Ward P. S. 1985. Taxonomic congruence and disparity in an insular ant fauna: Rhytidoponera in New Caledonia. Systematic Zoology 34: 140-151.
 * Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
 * Wheeler, William Morton. 1927. The Ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62(4): 121-153
 * Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56